https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812758
--- Comment #20 from John Zaitseff J.Zaitseff@zap.org.au --- (In reply to William Moreno from comment #17)
# This file is distributed under the same licence as Star Traders itself: # the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
Not, you can not, specs are software for the FPCA
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal: Fedora_Project_Contributor_Agreement?rd=Legal:FPCA
"Code" means (i) software code, (ii) any other functional material whose principal purpose is to control or facilitate the building of packages, such as an RPM spec file, (iii) font files, and (iv) other kinds of copyrightable material that the Fedora Council has classified as "code" rather than "content".
I am not quite sure what your point is here. I am the author of both the software package (Star Traders) and (at least for current versions) the SPEC file as well. All I aim in making the statement "This file is distributed..." is to make the SPEC file be under the GPL 3+. It is a declarative statement in English: essentially, "I choose that this file is distributed under...".
My reading of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing suggests that I can license the SPEC file under an explicit licence, in this case GPL 3+: it is only if I don't that the SPEC file comes under the MIT licence.