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

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Sep 26 18:19:51 UTC 2007


On 26.09.2007 20:09, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 19:51 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
>> rpm.org on the other hand could guide everyone and provide a "sane
>> default" maybe.
> For example, by putting in a default bit of text in a default spec file

Well, your normally start spec files from scratch, so there is no
"default spec file" to put it in. Fedora OTOH provides one via
rpmdevtools (rpmdev-newspec)-- we could put something into that one.

> that says, "This specfile is under the license of the software it
> packages" or something?

For example -- but I'd prefer something like "This spec files is public
domain"

> [...]

CU
knurd




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