permission to use spec files in other projects (was: Re: Updates from knurd)
On 15.01.2008 19:23, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 15.01.2008 19:01, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> /topic EPEL SIG Meeting | permission to use spec files in other projects
>> | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
> Does anybody still care? Seems the Board either do not understand what
> we/I'm up to or they ignore it.
No one but you sees a problem. It's covered by the CLA.
Please explain to me: What meaning has the CLA (a contract between a
Fedora contributer and Fedora/Red Hat) to someone else that receives
software from Fedora?
I'm not familiar with US law, but in Germany a contract between A and B
has no meaning to C.
if you want to be
more explicit then you are free to put a license header in each of your
specs.
My packages are not relevant here. It's about cooperation as a whole. If
foo(¹) wants to use a spec file from Fedora as base for a package in his
repo then he needs to be sure that it is a legal thing to do.
Cu
knurd
(¹) foo could be Dag, Livna, RPM Fusion or my neighbor