[CentOS] Compile vs. RPM

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 17:55, Jim Perrin wrote:

> > XXX brand of YYY
> > where YYY was a generic term then they could tell they had what
> > they wanted either way.
> 
> 
> As Johnny said, we've been asked not to use certain trademarked items,
> and I don't really see any reason to go against that right now whether
> or not we're "technically" correct in doing so. There are plenty of
> other "open source" distributions like mandriva and suse, where
> rebuilding the corporate or EL version is nearly impossible, if not
> outright prohibited by the license agreement. RH supports the
> community as much as anyone else, and we do use their source packages,
> so if they say "we'd appreciate you not doing that" it's a reasonable
> thing. Add 2-3 lines of text manually, or bite the hand that feeds
> you. Not really a tough call for me.

Of course, but it would be nice if 3rd party app packagers
started asking how to detect the OS compatibility without
referencing a brand name with the danger of letting it become
generic.

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  Les Mikesell
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