Developing Fedora Derivative distro yum "priority" question

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Sep 3 20:20:08 UTC 2007


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 8/31/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> "You may also not then say that your product "contains Fedora" or is an
>> alternate "edition" of Fedora. You may say that your product is "a
>> derivative of Fedora" or is "built upon Fedora", but you must make it
>> clear that your product is NOT Fedora"
>>
>> This is based on "fair use" and you don't need explicit permission.
> 
> You know, we should probably consider stating a single preference for
> how to communicate this. And make the stated preference easy to find
> in the text instead of buried in the middle of a longer paragraph.

Ideally we will have tools that allow you to pass a argument that marks 
a custom spin as a derivative with appropriate text and branding in the 
right places and use the documentation only to compliment the capability 
with these tools.

Rahul




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