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