On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 18:04 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
I understand that there are circumstances where the upstream
tarballs
need to be modified to removed content which is patented or cannot be
redistributed for some reason. However, should that be the extent of
the permitted modifications?
The only time we should be modifying tarballs is when the tarball would
cause us to ship something in the SRPM that Fedora:
- doesn't have permission to distribute
- doesn't permit because of its license
- would be violating known patents to ship
In 99% of the other cases, leave the tarball alone and edit the content
in the spec.
~spot