permission to use spec files in other projects

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 15.01.2008 20:21, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.

Then I'm sure it can be written down to finally solve the iossue?

> That is the only 
> thing you are worried about. Right?

I think that's what people were worried about when the issue came up on
this list.

CU
knurd