permission to use spec files in other projects

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 16:02:46 UTC 2008


On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:52:16 +0530
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 20:29 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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
> > Red Hat is not the copyright holder - period.
> 
> The CLA which all contributors have signed certainly does indicate 
> otherwise.

No it doesn't.  As spot already pointed out, it's giving Red Hat a
copyright license.  It is not assigning the copyright of the original
work to Red Hat.

josh




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