permission to use spec files in other projects

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

Hi!

The topic "permission to use Fedora spec files in other projects" is
still on the EPEL agenda, as that's the area where the topic came up.

@Board, @FESCo: Any progress on this? The last update on the topic and
the discussion didn't solve the problem afaik. What's needed is afaics a
official statement like "Spec files from Fedora are licensed as <foo> if
not otherwise specified in the header of the spec file" from the Board
in a official place.

Reminder, the problem that needs to be solved: a random person (say: my
neighbor who is no Fedora contributer and thus has never heard of or
seen the CLA) should be sure that he won't get sued it he takes a SPEC
file from the Fedora project, modifies it and publish SRPM build from it.

Sure, it sounds a bit like a academic problem (which until now often is
ignored), but it nevertheless should be solved IMHO.

Cu
knurd