Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 19.08.2007 15:52, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 09:49 +0200, Marek Mahut wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I have a question, probably for spot, what's the license of .spec file >>> it-self? Is it under license of a product or indirectly signed by CLA? >>> Is it a good idea to include the license specification about the spec >>> file in the .spec file? >> FWIW, licensing the .spec files never made much sense to me. >> >> 1. There's very little original copyrightable work in a spec file. > > Well, some spec files can be quite complex. More complex than some small > scripts that come with a copyright notice that often is longer than the > script-part itself. > >> 2. The license of the spec file itself would have nothing to do with the >> contents of the RPM, other than that the spec file would also be >> included as a separate file inside the RPM. So, the spec file is not >> automatically under the same license as the bits being packaged up. > > +1 -- I'd say if we license them then the maintainer or Fedora as a > whole should pick a license for their spec files. > >> 3. Is it indirectly signed by the CLA? More like directly.[...] > > Maybe, but that's not obvious to outside parties. Let's say a outside > 3rd party that maintains a public rpm-repo wants to pick up a Fedora > package and its spec file for its repo. Then that 3rd party repo wants > to be sure that Fedora doesn't sue them today or in the future for > taking Fedora's spec file. Explicitly licensing our spec files would > make would solve this problem -- currently it's more a grey area. > > IOW: I think putting a short license text in the spec files (e.g. this > is "Public Domain" or "licensed as WTFPL" ) would be a good idea. And what happens when I want to import (modified) spec file from other project (upstream) licensed under GPLv2 for example? > CU > knurd -- Marek Mahut http://www.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Project http://www.jamendo.com/ -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
