TradeMarked Name --redhat-config-

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Nov 8 06:56:44 UTC 2003


> Do you worry about contributing to gnu-cc ?
> 
> I do understand the point you are trying to make but its GPL code and so
> you can either rename it or not worry about it (Red Hat ships gnu-cc, nothing
> stops other folks shipping redhat-config-blah really as I understand it).

Well I know this sounds silly, but, in the case of yum people use it on
non-redhat platforms. I'd actually feel bad telling them 'yah you need
this red hat specific library, named rhpl' in order to use it.

putting the name of a commercial vendor in the library name is kinda
'blah' anyway.

(this, of course coming from the guy who wrote yellowdog updater,
modified, so I completely understand the hypocrisy) :)
but to be honest most people miss the yellowdog part entirely, for some
reason.

-sv








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