On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 03:18:19PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Hi! > > The topic "permission to use Fedora spec files in other projects" is > still on the EPEL agenda, as that's the area where the topic came up. > > @Board, @FESCo: Any progress on this? The last update on the topic and > the discussion didn't solve the problem afaik. What's needed is afaics a > official statement like "Spec files from Fedora are licensed as <foo> if > not otherwise specified in the header of the spec file" from the Board > in a official place. The Board discussed this, and decided that the spec files need to be licensed in one of two ways: 1) preferred - with the same license as the source code it builds. This is the default unless the spec file specifies otherwise. As every Fedora-acceptable license allows for derivative works, this should satisfy people's needs and obeys the principle of least surprise. 2) less preferred - with a license that is extremely permissive, such as MIT/X11, specified in the spec file itself. Thanks, Matt _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board