permission to use spec files in other projects

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:18 +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.
>>
>> Reminder, the problem that needs to be solved: a random person (say: my
>> neighbor who is no Fedora contributer and thus has never heard of or
>> seen the CLA) should be sure that he won't get sued it he takes a SPEC
>> file from the Fedora project, modifies it and publish SRPM build from it.
>>
>> Sure, it sounds a bit like a academic problem (which until now often is
>> ignored), but it nevertheless should be solved IMHO.
> 
> As I've said before, my stance is this:
> 
> I don't think that the Fedora Board (or FESCo) can supercede the CLA,
> which states that original contributions without prior license are
> covered under the CLA. This is because the CLA is a signed agreement
> explicitly to cover this case.
> 
> For the Fedora Board to say "all spec files are under the BSD license,
> unless otherwise specified", it would directly conflict with the CLA.

Red Hat as the copyright holder can do this however IIUC which then can 
choose to declare the license of the specs under a permissive license 
via a header on the spec files. Wouldn't that solve this issue?

Rahul