permission to use spec files in other projects (Was Re: clamav)

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sat Sep 22 16:48:40 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 11:44 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "JB" == Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> writes:
> 
> JB> I don't see anything that expressly forbids that.
> 
> I know; my point was that there should have been clarification before
> the first such spec was allowed in the distro.  (I did several early
> Java package reviews and was uncomfortable when I saw the first
> more-license-than-spec specfile from jpackage.)

Actually, this is permitted. It's dumb, but permissable.

~spot




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