On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 04:07:43PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 09. 09. 25 16:03, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > generic-release is FTI > > > > This happens after each branching. I fixed that in the past, but at a point > > I decided not to care: there were no users screaming, CI systems breaking... > > It is referenced in > https://build.opensuse.org/projects/Fedora:Rawhide/prjconf. > I got pinged that it apparently broke some automated builds of systemd. > What was the original raison d'être for the package? The description says > > > This package explicitly is a replacement for the trademarked release > > package, if you are unable for any reason to abide by the trademark > > restrictions on that release package. > > but fedora-release-common is mostly a normal package. The only file > that could be relevant is > /usr/share/licenses/fedora-release-common/Fedora-Legal-README.txt: > > > The Fedora Operating System is a compilation of software packages, > > each under its own license. The compilation itself is released under > > the MIT license (see the file LICENSE). However, this compilation > > license does not supersede the licenses of code and content > > contained in the Fedora Operating System, which conform to the legal > > guidelines described at > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-approval/ > > This doesn't say anything about copyright. It just says that Fedora > the OS is licensed under some license, which is a fairly generic > statement. I don't see a problem with that file being present > in a package, when the package is used to build something other > than one of the official Fedora editions or spins. The problem > would only be if that thing was labeled as "Fedora", but that's > a completely separate issue. > > The maintainance effort of keeping presets updated in generic-release > is non-trivial… I think we should retire generic-release and just > tell people to use fedora-release-common. >
We maintain generic-release as a way for people to fork to build their own branding, just like we do with generic-logos. I would prefer not to lose them. What we could do is subpackage all the presets out and have both generic-release and fedora-release depend on them. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
