On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:26:17 -0400 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:14:45 -0500 Josh Boyer jwboyer@jdub.homelinux.org wrote:
A declaration of what license (if any) the spec files are under globally. Spot is right in that they are covered by the CLA, but I don't consider that to be straight forward for people consuming downstream. It's also complicated by the fact that nothing disallows people from adding their own license to the spec file.
The end goal is simply to allow others to take the Fedora spec files and use them in other projects.
Also we should probably make a decision project wise as to if allowing spec files in Fedora to be explicitly licensed (see jpp spec files) and if so how that interacts with the global license of all spec files.
Perhaps. Though you'll be opening yourself up for lots of interesting "you stole my licensed spec file!" debates if you disallow it. The jpp folks added the licensing explicitly because of Fedora contributors doing that.
josh