On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 20:29 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:18 +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. > >> > >> Reminder, the problem that needs to be solved: a random person (say: my > >> neighbor who is no Fedora contributer and thus has never heard of or > >> seen the CLA) should be sure that he won't get sued it he takes a SPEC > >> file from the Fedora project, modifies it and publish SRPM build from it. > >> > >> Sure, it sounds a bit like a academic problem (which until now often is > >> ignored), but it nevertheless should be solved IMHO. > > > > As I've said before, my stance is this: > > > > I don't think that the Fedora Board (or FESCo) can supercede the CLA, > > which states that original contributions without prior license are > > covered under the CLA. This is because the CLA is a signed agreement > > explicitly to cover this case. > > > > For the Fedora Board to say "all spec files are under the BSD license, > > unless otherwise specified", it would directly conflict with the CLA. > > Red Hat as the copyright holder Red Hat is not the copyright holder - period. > can do this however IIUC which then can > choose to declare the license of the specs under a permissive license > via a header on the spec files. Wouldn't that solve this issue? > > Rahul > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-advisory-board mailing list > fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
