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Re: permission to use spec files in other projects (Was Re: clamav): msg#00051

Subject: Re: permission to use spec files in other projects (Was Re: clamav)
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:46 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:24:00 -0700
> Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > > Further questions arise from Fedora maintainers reusing/modifying
> > > upstream specs and/or specs from other origins (e.g. other distros). 
> > > They can be covered by other copyrights/licenses (e.g. the GPL).
> > 
> > Since spec files are specific to RPM packaging, could it be better if
> > rpm.org set the standard?  It could be a bigger first step toward all
> > sources of spec files being license compatible.
> 
> What?  That's the equivalent of saying that the GNU Make project should
> set the copyright on all makefiles...

No, it's not.

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