permission to use spec files in other projects

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Jan 15 19:01:48 UTC 2008


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/msg00031.html

Which I replied to in
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-January/msg00032.html
with the words:

[...] I can't know if the all work I get from Fedora was submitted
by someone that signed the CLA. [...]

Cu
knurd




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