[Fedora-packaging] Modifying upstream tarballs

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 18:04 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I understand that there are circumstances where the upstream tarballs
> need to be modified to removed content which is patented or cannot be
> redistributed for some reason.  However, should that be the extent of
> the permitted modifications?

The only time we should be modifying tarballs is when the tarball would
cause us to ship something in the SRPM that Fedora:

- doesn't have permission to distribute
- doesn't permit because of its license
- would be violating known patents to ship

In 99% of the other cases, leave the tarball alone and edit the content
in the spec.

~spot