On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:47:39PM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 07/21/2009 07:40 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 06:31:44PM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>
>> Those are made by Red Hat employees as part of their regular job, so
>> automatically fail under CLA. I think a bit of research (but I am not
>> thrilled about doing it myself) of the RPMs from those release will
>> reveal a GPL license. But IANAL and i don't work for Red Hat... (we can
>> try a shortcut and ask spot)
>
> I think you meant "fall" instead of "fail"! It did give me a
chuckle
ROTFLMAO! the spell checker failed me. again!
> though. But yes, these contributions to Fedora should fall under a
> license that allows reuse, redistribution, and remixes, although I
> suspect it's not Creative Commons.
Fair enough. But I think we may do something to change their license to
something usable (CC). If the relicense to CC for documentation/wiki is
possible, I expect it has to be possible for wallpapers. Should I ask
Spot about this?
Yes, I'd bring this issue to fedora-legal-list so it's documented for
reference later. Thanks for bringing this up, Nicu.
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