Re: permission to use spec files in other projects

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

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/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. [...]

All the work definitely isn't but spec files would be. That is the only 
thing you are worried about. Right?

Rahul