On 15.01.2008 21:00, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 15.01.2008 20:21, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> On 15.01.2008 20:01, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>>> On 15.01.2008 19:23, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>>>>> On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>>>>> On 15.01.2008 19:01, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>>>>>> /topic EPEL SIG Meeting | permission to use spec files in
other projects
>>>>>>>> |
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc
>>>>>>> Does anybody still care? Seems the Board either do not
understand what
>>>>>>> we/I'm up to or they ignore it.
>>>>>> No one but you sees a problem. It's covered by the CLA.
>>>>> Please explain to me: What meaning has the CLA (a contract between a
>>>>> Fedora contributer and Fedora/Red Hat) to someone else that receives
>>>>> software from Fedora?
>>>>> I'm not familiar with US law, but in Germany a contract between A
and B
>>>>> has no meaning to C.
>>>> CLA is not just a contract between A and B or more specifically it
>>>> allows the same rights to all recipients which in this case would
>>>> include C. I believe spot already explained that in
>>>>
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-January/msg000...
>>> Which I replied to in
>>>
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-January/msg000...
>>> with the words:
>>> [...] I can't know if the all work I get from Fedora was submitted
>>> by someone that signed the CLA. [...]
>> All the work definitely isn't but spec files would be.
> Then I'm sure it can be written down to finally solve the iossue?
It is written down within the CLA
Which CLA? The one I signed in the early Fedora days is not the one that
is available today. There are afaik even today different CLAs for Red
Hat, IBM, Dell and community contributers -- I don't know what's written
in them. And I don't known which of those is binding if I take
something from Fedora.
We consulted with legal before on whether we can explain the CLA
better
in another document and the legal opinion was that if any clarifications
are necessary, it should done within the CLA itself and not in a
separate document as any contradictions are considered risky IIRC.
However I think you can point this out in the EPEL FAQ for example in
this way:
I'm not going to put any legal statement anywhere. That is exactly what
we have the Board for and that's why I asked the Board to handle that.
Cu
knurd