On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:31, David Farning wrote:
I have been working for the past several weeks on a visual gui
front end for yum. I am considering bringing that knowledge with me to work on the fedora project. But, Frankly, I am concerned about contributing to a program with a trademarked name. I am interested in giving back to the entiregnu/linux community not just the redhat community. If someone likes my product, I would like them to be able to freely use my work irregardless of their distro/flavor. With this in mind what are your suggestions? a. Go ahead and work on redhat-config-*. b. Seek renaming of redhat-config-* to something vendor neutral. c. Put my work in an up stream project and let it trickle down.
David, I have similar worries. I've been encouraged to possibly look at using the rhpl package (red hat python library) for functions in yum and the rhpl functions/classes are really quite nice, but I'm a little hazy on requiring them for yum b/c I'd like yum to be useful on other platforms than just rhel/flc/rhl.
I'd love to hear suggestions on this problem, especially from the red hat folks. I know at least one person at red hat does understand my concerns.
-sv