Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 02.01.2008 17:28, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>> On 02.01.2008 15:34, Rex Dieter wrote: >>>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >>>>> 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? >>>> Pardon my ignorance and/or naivety, but isn't this covered by the CLA, >>>> clause 2: >>>> [...] >>>> yada yada, basically says (to my own non-lawyer interpretation) that >>>> folks can take these fedora-contributed materials and do pretty much >>>> whatever. >>> The CLA is signed between contributers and the Fedora Project/Red Hat. >>> it has no meaning for a third party. >> Except, the CLA explicitly defines the license for Fedora contributions, >> for Red Hat and all recipients of Fedora. > > How should a 3rd party know that and be sure about it? Is that written > down somewhere? Only in the CLA, which is admittedly, less than ideal. The best case (at least, from a legal perspective), is to have the CLA license grant included in every otherwise unlicensed spec file. The next best thing is a reference URL to the CLA license grant included in every otherwise unlicensed spec file. The third best thing is simply having a mention to the CLA license grant on the wiki (seems like a good fit for an addendum to the Licensing page). ~spot _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
