[CentOS-devel] Branding hunt

[Jason Brooks]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at karan.org>
> To: centos-devel at centos.org
> Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 3:22:25 PM
> Subject: [CentOS-devel] Branding hunt
> 
> 
> There are three things that we are trying to achieve in the branding
> hunt. In priority order these are :
> 
> 1) To remove Red Hat TM's so as to meet their requirements and guidelines
> 
> 2) To establish the CentOS Branding and identity
> 
> 3) To remove ambiguity downstream as to where and what the code
> represents. This includes replacing strings that brand a component to be
> a part of RHEL. eg: if something says 'the xxxx for Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux' we would replace that to say 'the xxxx for CentOS Linux'

Somewhat related. Are there, or could there be, strictly generic 
branding packages that anyone could use for anything w/ no 
trademark concerns? That'd be really nice for people building
their own stuff...

Jason

> 
> Some notes to keep in mind while you go through stuff to check for
> branding issues :
> a) we are not trying to replace (c) Red Hat, or things where it says its
> Red Hat influenced, like the 'gcc -v' string
> 
> b) Even if someone has reported a component as checked, please check it
> again - more +1's to a patch, or to a whitelist request, or to a
> blacklist request help increase confidence in the overall end result.
> 
> c) please also install and check in the GUI, sometimes applications
> About box's will have the Red Hat shadowman logos that we need to
> usually replace.
> 
> d) When in doubt, feel free to reach out
> 
> Getting in touch : During the entire Branding hunt run, we will be
> available on #centos-devel / irc.freenode.net as well as the
> centos-devel list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ), feel free to reach out
> with comments, suggestions etc.
> 
> 
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