[WBEL-devel] Long- Thoughts on WB maintenance (was Re: How to get the RHEL Errata?)

[donavan nelson]

> Not to be overly pessimistic here, but from their track record,
>  RedHat is probably going to be happiest if there is 0 mention of 
> RedHat, RedHat Linux or any other trademark that can even imply this 
> project having any relationship/similarity/trace to RHLE. As long as 
> WBEL stays out of RedHat's way I'm sure the opposite will be the 
> case as well. 

But it's nearly impossible to avoid mention of Redhat, RHL, RHEL, RHN, etc. 
John clearly states that this product is derived from Redhat supplied source
files.  Not to be tacky, but we as a community benefit from Redhat, we can't
deny that.  I agree with the original poster's points about being "friends"
with Redhat.  If they don't want it then so be it, in all honesty, I think
Redhat is the loser.
 
> I like the idea of a patch w/ SRPM but that doesn't solve the 
> problem of embedded images containing their trademarks. So long as 
> WBEL is only distributing a patch/shell script it would save an 
> immense amount of bandwidth and would leave the end user with the 
> fair "at-your-own-risk" caveat. 

This is not workable as we are not distributing RedHat's binaries.  This is a
rebuild from their sources.  We can't be distributing our cleansed SRPMs as
the only source of updates.  Users want binary updates, users will demand
binary updates.  SRPM updates aren't feasible IMHO.  This product doesn't
exist distributing SRPMs.

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