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

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 18:42:50 UTC 2008


On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Where the problem comes up is where a project is not saying they are
Fedora/Red Hat/etc but the packages say they are.. and where that line
is where lawyers get lots of money :).


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"




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