Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 15 21:25:54 UTC 2008
Konrad Meyer wrote:
> Quoth Les Mikesell:
>> Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> I think ATrpms pre-dates fedora. Freshrpms certainly did. Do you think
>> you can retroactively trademark the package names or something?
>
> Red Hat Linux pre-dates Fedora also, but it doesn't claim to provide packages
> for Fedora 8.
If Red Hat Linux had a history of providing additional services to users
and thus you expected it to provide a repository for fedora version X,
would you subvert that ability by forking some of its existing packages
into incompatible versions duplicated into your own repository?
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Les Mikesell
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