Re: permission to use spec files in other projects (Was Re: clamav)

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On 22 Sep 2007 11:12:56 -0500
Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>>>> "TL" == Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> TL> I cannot speak for other peoples spec files and I suspect some
> TL> packagers won't agree with the "SPEC files are public domain"
> TL> statement
> 
> You can be certain of it; for whatever reason, jpackage specfiles
> carry a block of license text, and they've been incorporated verbatim
> into Fedora.  Which I honestly don't think should have been allowed,
> but nobody seemed to care when I raised the issue.

I don't see anything that expressly forbids that.  I agree it's pretty
silly to do so though.

josh

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