permission to use spec files in other projects
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 15 19:21:28 UTC 2008
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
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