[CentOS-devel] [was: Reality V/s Fantasy] Stripping SRPM payload

Thu Dec 2 10:28:02 UTC 2010
Leonard den Ottolander <leonard at den.ottolander.nl>

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?

Regards,
Leonard.

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