Hello, Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2012 schrieb Nelson Marques:
2012/5/5 Marguerite Su <i@marguerite.su>:
I mean this:
# # spec file for package # # Copyright (c) 2012 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany. # # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties # remain the property of their copyright owners, [...]
indeed, original spec file template come with RPM tarball. in that case, it means every word in every spec file created from any kind of template is GPLed. (seems to be in section 2b) I think that why SuSE "copyright" header said so much nonsense like who contribute who own...if not blabla...it's just a fallback secure. even
Basically this copyright header says "the spec is licensed under the same license as the package itsself" (so for GPL software, the spec is GPL also) There's one exception: for packages with a non-open source license, the spec is licensed under the MIT license to ensure that at least the spec is open source ;-)
The SUSE Copyright headers are injected by some crazy script when
s/are/were/ - AFAIK this script is no longer in use. Instead, you'll get your package rejected from factory if the spec doesn't contain any copyright header. The important thing is that the specfile contains a notice about the copyright and the license of the specfile. Using the well-known copyright header that was used/enforced in the past is fine, but AFAIK something like # Copyright (c) 2012 Joe Packager # This file is licensed unter GPL-2.0+ will also be accepted.
I'm not lawyer, but in a previous case I happened to know a little about GPL from my lawyer friend from Opera (bug 751746, the author charge fee for a GPL work).
This bug is non-public (which is not too surprising when it comes to legal stuff) Regards, Christian Boltz PS: hand-picked .sig today ;-) -- I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This message was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org