Re: Hosting the live cd
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
But the most well known linux distribution that gets a lot of public
attention gets away with it, so with similar tricks it might be
possible for us as well. But that would need closer evaluation and is
a complicated different topic we should ignore for now.
No distribution ships
proprietary drivers bundled and linked by default
(like a live cd would) to the best of my knowledge. If you let the user
make the final step, then it is different. I am not sure which
distribution you are referring to here. I suspect you are talking about
Ubuntu. In that case, you should look more closely at what they are
doing. I don't want to play dirty tricks on a already troublesome legal
grey area even if we can get away with it.
Anyway, we should stop this discussion and do something productive.
Sounds like a good idea to me :-)
So here are my suggestions:
(a) use "RPM Fusion" and prefix for all official spins (Just like
Fedora project uses the name Fedora for its spins) ; a "RPM Fusion
Spin" (using the kickstart file from omega as base) will be the first
and official spin that has both the free and nonfree repos enabled;
this naming scheme leaves room for other spins under the hood of RPM
Fusion:
* "RPM Fusion Free" (only free; nonfree repo not even enabled);
* "RPM Fusion Games" (games from Fedora, RPM Fusion free/nonfree)
* "RPM Fusion foo" (whatever people want to do)
(b) just like "(a)", but only that we use "Omega" as the name for the
"official spin"; all others use "RPM Fusion" and prefix
(c) Just like "(a)", but use Omega as prefix everywhere
(d) your suggestion here
I don't think using the "spin" naming
convention is a good idea for
trademark reasons. The new trademark guidelines for Fedora proposed at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/NewTrademarkGuidelines
differentiates between a spin and a remix. If you believe, that other
variants are going to be made available and they need to be in the same
space (separate sub domains are a possibility), instead of a omega
subdomain, you could setup a remix subdomain instead. RPMFusion is
going to be providing packages for EL distributions as well. Someone
might have an interest in creating a remix around that. So to be
specific, you will get a name like - RPMFusion spin - free repository
for Fedora (GNOME edition) or something like that which tends to be
clumsy. I am also in favour of associating Omega with the Fedora brand
since it is the primary project after all. So in the future, we can do
something like
* Omega - Fedora multimedia remix
The proposed more liberal rules around the secondary mark for Fedora
remixes which I am keeping a close eye on will likely allow this
possibility. This is the reason I suggested the word "remix" in the
conversation which has been accepted by Red Hat Legal. It seems we are
close to getting the above guidelines finalized - certainly before the
Fedora 10 GA release. I will apply for approval if necessary and go
through the due process to get this done.
Rahul