New package from one source

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 02:42:08 UTC 2009


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) (forum at ru.bir.ru) said: 
>   
>> As was mentioned in there discussion I want package it and push to  
>> Fedora (it is open source and maintained). So, main question - is it  
>> normal situation have second package (I intend call it like apache-itk)  
>> with one source, which used in other rpm (apache) in repository? Is  
>> really there any legal issues or etc.?
>>     
>
> I don't think shipping separate rebuilds of core system daemons that
> consist of adding 66k of non-upstream patch is a good idea.
>
> Bill
>
>   
seconded. If it isn't good enough for upstream we don't want it.

--CJD




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