On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:26:36PM -0400, Michael Jennings wrote: > No, I'm not. What I'm doing is stating that there is no difference in > code, and thus people are welcome to use whatever they like. They _can_ use whatever they like, and the code doesn't care, but in general, License is better than Copyright. > The *original* poster said nothing about License:/Copyright:. That > was brought up by someone else who chose to inject a completely > off-topic rant into this thread which has since caused it to diverge > into the current discussion. Consider it a sub-thread, then. I didn't realize it was going to be so in depth -- I was just trying to be helpful. > > The Red Hat RPM Guide. > > <http://www.pconline.com/~erc/rpm.htm>, check out page 168. > Swell. Interestingly, a grep through the rpm CVS repository shows no > occurance of his name anywhere that I can find. I think I'll wait to > hear something from someone a bit closer to the code, thanks. Again, there's a difference between what the code allows and good policy. > > Also, the Fedora Extras packaging guide: > > <http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackagingHints#tags> > That's Fedora's policy. So what? You act as though RedHat and Fedora > are the only people who use RPM. No, those are just two quick sources I could find. The Mandrake RPM howto, at <http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo#Header_section>, says the same thing, as does (as far as Babelfish lets me understand) Conectiva's RPM packaging policy. <https://moin.conectiva.com.br/GuiaCriacaoSpecsCL>. I couldn't find a published SuSE packaging policy, but they also seem to use License instead of Copyright for their packages. If you want to do different in your packages, RPM won't stop you -- but I'll prefer to use packages made by someone with more rigorous standards. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
