permission to use spec files in other projects

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 03:18:19PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 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.


Thanks,
Matt