Dear All, Can't we use the packagelist from RHEL 6 as an initial list of packages, which need to be "re-branded"? Peter ----- Eredeti üzenet ----- > Feladó: "Kay Williams" <kay at deployproject.org> > Címzett: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org> > Elküldött üzenetek: Hétfő, 2014. Május 19. 0:29:48 > Tárgy: Re: [CentOS-devel] The Branding Hunt. Ed. 7 > See comments at the end... > > -----Original Message----- > > From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-devel- > > bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes > > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:30 AM > > To: centos-devel at centos.org > > Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] The Branding Hunt. Ed. 7 > > > > On 05/14/2014 03:29 PM, Kay Williams wrote: > > > Is there information somewhere on what has been done in the past, > > what > > > worked well, what didn't, etc? > > > > > > Would be nice if changes could be centralized in some way so that > > > folks wanting to make custom branded distros based on CentOS could > > leverage. > > > > Well, the goal is to change the minimal amount of things possible to > > meet both the requirements to redistribute the software (from the Red > > Hat trademark perspective) ... and also to meet the intent of the > > requirement. > > > > Here is the document: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/corp/RH-3573_284204_TM_Gd.pdf > > > > Specifically we are looking at page 5 under the heading, "Publishing > > and Marketing Red Hat Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Software That > > Has Been Modified" > > > > The exact rules are that "RedHat-Logos" and "Anaconda-Images" need to > > be changed. I have done this in a new centos-logos package that will > > be provided for review on git.centos.org. With that we meet the actual > > requirement of the PDF. > > > > But the intent is also that if something claims to be Red Hat > > Enterprise Linux, we should change it. Also, if the logo appears in > > things other than documentation within the distro we should change it. > > > > For example, if something says to submit a bug report to > > bugzilla.redhat.com, we would want to instead say bugs.centos.org, so > > we want to change this. > > > > But, if something is there because of copyright or to designate credit > > for work performed then we do not want to change it ... so, as an > > example, the About section of a LibreOffice app says: "This release > > was supplied by Red Hat, Inc." That is a true statement and does not > > need to be changed .. if it said "Created for Red Hat Enterprise Linux" > > or something similar, we would change the RPM to take that out. > > > > The SRPMs that we currently change will either start with the name > > centos, or have a .centos. in the name (the one exception being the > > kernel package .. we change it and we do not change the name so 3rd > > Party drivers supplied for booting the kernel will work with both the > > Red Hat and CentOS kernels. > > > > We also list the modified SRPMs in our release notes, so for the > > CentOS-6.5 release here is the list: > > > > http://bit.ly/1ljZd5I > > > > Thanks, > > Johnny Hughes > > > Hi Johnny, this all makes sense. > Is the thinking for centos7, then, to "assign out" chunks of packages to > reviewers/hunters, who when then look at sources for text/logos that should > be changed? > Would you want the reviewers to sign off for packages reviewed? How many > packages would be typical for a reviewer to handle in a volunteer-friendly > amount of time? How would branding hunting happen on an ongoing basis as new > packages are added? > This could be a pretty huge effort. And a little deflating for reviewers? A > bit like looking for a needle in a haystack. Perhaps some part could be > automated, say an initial pass over sources looking for variants of the text > "Red Hat" in text or file names, and then reviewers could look at just those > packages? > I can definitely contribute some hours to the effort. Just trying to > understand where/how to help and how people's time can be used wisely. > Thanks, > Kay > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140519/a5401b7e/attachment-0007.html>