spec files and OPL

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 11:14 -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
> All,
> 
> My apologies for not having time to dig through all the messages in the 
> current thread about the spec files.  I am leaving for Ohio Linux Fest 
> tomorrow and the preparations for my speech there take priority.
> 
> But I have talked with Mark Webbink about the questions around licensing 
> the spec files.
> 
> One of the possibilities that I mentioned to him was simply licensing 
> all of the spec files in Fedora under the OPL.  Mark seemed to think 
> that this might be a simple way to meet the goal of ensuring that the 
> spec files are all fully redistributable.
> 
> Is that an acceptable solution?  Would it solve the concerns that people 
> have been raising?

The OPL is a documentation license, and not appropriate for spec files.

~spot