On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 04:07:43PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 09. 09. 25 16:03, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > generic-release is FTI > > This happens after each branching. I fixed that in the past, but at a point > I decided not to care: there were no users screaming, CI systems breaking... It is referenced in https://build.opensuse.org/projects/Fedora:Rawhide/prjconf. I got pinged that it apparently broke some automated builds of systemd. What was the original raison d'être for the package? The description says > This package explicitly is a replacement for the trademarked release > package, if you are unable for any reason to abide by the trademark > restrictions on that release package. but fedora-release-common is mostly a normal package. The only file that could be relevant is /usr/share/licenses/fedora-release-common/Fedora-Legal-README.txt: > The Fedora Operating System is a compilation of software packages, > each under its own license. The compilation itself is released under > the MIT license (see the file LICENSE). However, this compilation > license does not supersede the licenses of code and content > contained in the Fedora Operating System, which conform to the legal > guidelines described at > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-approval/ This doesn't say anything about copyright. It just says that Fedora the OS is licensed under some license, which is a fairly generic statement. I don't see a problem with that file being present in a package, when the package is used to build something other than one of the official Fedora editions or spins. The problem would only be if that thing was labeled as "Fedora", but that's a completely separate issue. The maintainance effort of keeping presets updated in generic-release is non-trivial… I think we should retire generic-release and just tell people to use fedora-release-common. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
