[Fedora-packaging] forbid fedora or redhat in spec files?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Apr 14 04:46:14 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:06 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have seen people saying that we should avoid using 'fedora' and 'redhat'
> in spec files, to help reusing in other contexts (be it, selfishly,
> EPEL/RHEL/OLPC, or other distros or upstreams). I think it is a good
> idea, especially since there is a trademark on fedora and redhat (unless
> I am wrong).
>
> Should we have a guideline about that? Or on a 'trick' page?
-1 ... unless there is any technical or legal reason (trademarks)
to ban these strings, I do not see any need to add any such kind of
restrictions.
Ralf
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