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

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:24:00 -0700
Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> 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...

josh