> 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. > > -- > mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >