[Fedora-packaging] forbid fedora or redhat in spec files?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Apr 14 14:10:05 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 08:55 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> One use case that comes to mind: someone doing a spin that can't meet the 
> Fedora criteria for still being called Fedora. In theory, simply replacing 
> fedora-release and fedora-logos is sufficient, but in practice, Fedora (and/or 
> Red Hat) shows up a few other places as well. In gnome, System->About Fedora 
> still shows up, and System->About Fedora still says "Distributor: Red Hat, 
> Inc." (this one probably ought to say "Fedora Project" for Fedora...). In web 
> pages, the apache identifier string is still "Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora)", and I'm 
> sure there are probably other cases as well.

Well, there is a difference in saying that we got these packages from
Fedora, and "We are Fedora", and this could wind up being a lengthy
discussion with the RH legal team.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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