Are specfiles covered by the Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA) ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/CLA
Message: 1 Date: 29 Apr 2008 22:42:46 -0500 From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs math uh edu> Subject: [Fedora-packaging] Copyrighted specfiles. To: fedora-packaging@redhat.com Message-ID: ufak5ig1009.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I have a specfile that begins with:
# Copyright 2006-2008 Double Precision, Inc. # See COPYING for distribution information.
It looks like the specfile is carried in the tarball and the maintainer just copies it out for the Fedora package. But this means that when you unpack the srpm, you get a spec that refers to a file which does not exist.
Is it too much to ask that if for some reason you're going to copyright the specfile you at least indicate the license in the specfile?
- J<
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 20:17 -0700, Brad Bell wrote:
Are specfiles covered by the Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA) ? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/CLA
Yes, but only if they have no previous license. It does not replace the existing Copyright or licensing for the specfile.
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