[Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name

Mon Jan 17 02:34:24 CET 2011

On 1/16/11, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+
+>
+> So I am favor to import it with this name (we didn't rename RPM because
+> it mean RedHat Package Manager...).
+>
+
+At the risk of being called pedantic, RPM _now_ stands for "RPM
+Package Manager" in all its GNU  recursive acronym goodness (GNU's Not
+Unix, WINE Is Not an Emulator, etc.) for precisely the reason you
+raise, so people would not use/drop it because of the RedHat name.
+
+Where MDK or drak is part of the application name (and hence the
+package name), it should not be changed because that is its name and
+Mandriva did, in fact, create it. When Mageia writes its own
+applications (mageiahelp, diskmagia, mageiasound) or forks the
+MDK/drak application (and starts separate, non-cooperative
+development), then change the name. Otherwise, it might be seen as if
+we are trying to hide something if only the name appears to change
+just to obscure the Mandriva origins..
+
+For items that are simply "branded", those names should be changed,
+but not necessarily in the first Mageia release unless copyrighted
+items are involved.
+
+-- 
+Hoyt
+