Re: permission to use spec files in other projects

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

On 02.01.2008 15:34, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 03:18:19PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 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.
> The Board discussed this, and decided that the spec files need to be
> licensed in one of two ways:
> 
> 1) preferred - with the same license as the source code it builds.
>    This is the default unless the spec file specifies otherwise.  As
>    every Fedora-acceptable license allows for derivative works, this
>    should satisfy people's needs and obeys the principle of least
>    surprise.
> 
> 2) less preferred - with a license that is extremely permissive, such
>    as MIT/X11, specified in the spec file itself.

Okay, but was that written down somewhere in a official place so people
can look it up and put in save place when they pick up a spec file from
Fedora? Otherwise the decision is of no value.

Cu
knurd