On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 09:14 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:05:44 -0400 (EDT)
A declaration of what license (if any) the spec files are under
globally. Spot is right in that they are covered by the CLA,
1. The CLA is a
bilateral contract. It is invisible to arbitrary users
wanting to use these specs.
2. The CLA's applicability is controversial (compatibiltiy) wrt. some
licenses, esp. GPL'ed packages. Fundamental question would be:
Is an rpm a derivative work of the "original works"?
but I
don't consider that to be straight forward for people consuming
downstream. It's also complicated by the fact that nothing disallows
people from adding their own license to the spec file.
Further questions arise from
Fedora maintainers reusing/modifying
upstream specs and/or specs from other origins (e.g. other distros).
They can be covered by other copyrights/licenses (e.g. the GPL).
The end goal is simply to allow others to take the Fedora spec files
and use them in other projects.
Ralf