[Fedora-packaging] forbid fedora or redhat in spec files?

[Rex Dieter]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 08:55 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> One use case that comes to mind: someone doing a spin that can't meet the
>>  > Fedora criteria for still being called Fedora. In theory, simply replacing
>>  > fedora-release and fedora-logos is sufficient, but in practice, Fedora (and/or
>>  > Red Hat) shows up a few other places as well. In gnome, System->About Fedora
>>  > still shows up, and System->About Fedora still says "Distributor: Red Hat,
>>  > Inc." (this one probably ought to say "Fedora Project" for Fedora...). In web
>>  > pages, the apache identifier string is still "Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora)", and I'm
>>  > sure there are probably other cases as well.
>>
>>  Well, there is a difference in saying that we got these packages from
>>  Fedora, and "We are Fedora", and this could wind up being a lengthy
>>  discussion with the RH legal team.
> 
> Where the problem comes up is where a project is not saying they are
> Fedora/Red Hat/etc but the packages say they are.. and where that line
> is where lawyers get lots of money :).

Either way, sounds like it's more a fedora-legal issue, and outside the 
jurisdiction of fedora packaging guidelines.

-- Rex