permission to use spec files in other projects

[Rahul Sundaram]

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

Rahul