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Re: ALERT! Abort RPM nonsense now!

From: Ean Schuessler <ean@dallas-cs-000.novare.net>
> I would like to gently remind all of my fellow Debianites that RPM
> stands for Redhat Package Manager and that Redhat and its associated
> products are very very likely to be the trademarked intellectual
> property of Redhat. "But RPM is GPL'd!" you say. Well, that is fine
> and well but will have little bearing if the choose to enforce other
> legal avenues.

Ean,

Debian project policy is to not treat other distributions as the enemy.

Red Hat has not been bad to us, even if they have never explicitly stated
their social contract with the free software community. They GPL-ed their
code, which is more than others have done. If they choose to protect the
"RPM" trademark, we'd call it something else. If the GPL is not sufficient
protection, we are in much bigger trouble than just having problems with
our package tool.

We have to look at what outsiders are doing and learn from it. We should
not have "not invented here" syndrome.

	Bruce
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