kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 00:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:35 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>>> I don't think that anyone has said that you can't make a special
>>>> spin with this kernel in it.
>>> For what it is worth, I actually am saying that such a spin can't be
>>> called Fedora, under the existing trademark guidelines, since I am
>>> opposed to any "alternative kernel" packages in the Fedora repository.
>> Well, there is still something called kernel-xen.
> 
> Yes, but it isn't a separate package, it is built off the kernel SRPM.

Are you sure?

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/kernel-xen-2.6/

I am not saying that we should introduce more kernel packages. It is 
just that we don't really have any written policies about this and we 
should be consistent and preferably document this if we don't want to 
ever introduce alternative kernel packages.

What happens if Alexandre Oliva just submits his kernel variant up for 
package review? Currently there is nothing stopping him and nothing 
stopping any other package maintainer from approving it.

Rahul