Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 07:02 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

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I think you guys are going about it the wrong way. You're so focused on the *contents* of the packages that you're missing the packages *themselves*. Could the signing of the packages be considered a "work", and therefore distribution of said signed packages be a violation of copyright law?

Well ... the general consensus is that is not the case, and that the SPEC file is covered under the same license as the rest of the source code unless it is specifically licensed differently.

I'm not talking about the spec file metadata, I'm talking about the signature that's applied to the package itself.