On Sun October 12 2008, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
And exactly that "I" in "went ahead with a name I
picked" IMHO is
totally unacceptable in a *community* project when it comes to important
issues (like releasing and branding a new spin; just imagine what had
happened if "I" (me in this context) would have simply imported all
kmods from livna months ago without asking somebody else ahead of
time!). If that is done to often then sooner or later we will be forced
Parts of my mind think: Omega is well known by now so just use that.
Other parts say: Why can't we simply use the name RPM Fusion together
with the Free and Nonfree suffixes? That will make it obvious what this
is about.
Was Omega promoted as the official RPMFusion spin anywhere? I cannot see
anything that implies this in the announcement of fedora-annouce:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00...
Eearlier also Orange Sombrero was announced there:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00...
Afaik it is one important feature of Fedora to allow people to freely remix
the contents and add stuff to create customs spins / live media. For Fedora
the only Guideline is, that it must not called Fedora, if it does contains
packages that are not from Fedora.
Regards,
Till