Hello Karanbir,
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 02:29 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Patches for branding issues need to be done at the srpm payload level, and not as a patch in the .spec
Is that really necessary? The original SRPMs with the "offending" payload are freely available and if I'm not mistaken redistributable under the GPL (IANAL). If you'd just patch the spec file to replace that content that would fix the RPMs that will be build from it. What legal requirement is there to strip those SRPMs?
I'm not privy to anything, but I imagine a lot of the images are registered trademarks. GPL doesn't (nor shouldn't) cover these.
See the whole Firefox v. Debian debate a few years back. RedHat would, I think, be pretty lenient on CentOS TM violations, but only if Karanbir et al were vigilant about stripping trademarked stuff out.
Matt
Regards, Leonard.
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