permission to use spec files in other projects

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 02.01.2008 17:28, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> On 02.01.2008 15:34, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>>> 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? 
>>>> Pardon my ignorance and/or naivety, but isn't this covered by the CLA,
>>>> clause 2:
>>>> [...]
>>>> yada yada, basically says (to my own non-lawyer interpretation) that 
>>>> folks can take these fedora-contributed materials and do pretty much 
>>>> whatever.
>>> The CLA is signed between contributers and the Fedora Project/Red Hat.
>>> it has no meaning for a third party.
>> Except, the CLA explicitly defines the license for Fedora contributions, 
>> for Red Hat and all recipients of Fedora.
> 
> How should a 3rd party know that and be sure about it? Is that written
> down somewhere?

Only in the CLA, which is admittedly, less than ideal.

The best case (at least, from a legal perspective), is to have the CLA
license grant included in every otherwise unlicensed spec file.

The next best thing is a reference URL to the CLA license grant included
in every otherwise unlicensed spec file.

The third best thing is simply having a mention to the CLA license grant
on the wiki (seems like a good fit for an addendum to the Licensing page).

~spot