[Mageia-sysadm] Packages SVN

Wed Nov 3 18:05:51 CET 2010

Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 16:39 +0100, Olivier Blin a écrit :
+> Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:
+> 
+> > Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 08:30 +0100, Olivier Blin a écrit :
+> >> Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:
+> >> 
+> >> >> About losing history, maybe it's something we will have to go through,
+> >> >> not to risk importing copyrighted/trademarked material.
+> >> >
+> >> > What would be trademarked in the svn log ?
+> >> 
+> >> Not in the log message, but in the commit contents.
+> >
+> > If we treat this content like we treat the tarballs, then we could
+> > workaround the problem, no ?
+> 
+> How so?
+
+Well, in fact, it depend on what we do not want to include.
+
+For data ( icones, theme, images ), we can simply put them outside of
+the svn, like we plan to do for tarballs. 
+
+For colors, that's indeed trickier, depending on the way they are
+specified. I assume that colors in a patch could indeed be hard to
+avoid. 
+
+On the other hand, I also think that saying that a C/perl source code is
+violating a trademark about color would be a big stretch. 
+
+Could we check what is exactly trademarked ?
+
+I have check on http://inpi.fr/ , and it seems that the name is
+trademarked, and the logo. Nothing about colors or theme ( even if I
+think we should change them for obvious identity related reason ). 
+( and the name "optango", but this tell me nothing )
+
+I have also checked on
+http://www.copat.de/markenformen/mne_markenformen.htm , nothing for
+colors and mandriva or mandrakesoft. 
+
+The OHIM ( http://oami.europa.eu/ ) also return nothing for Mandriva; so
+does the USPTO.
+
+And their FAQ only speak of the star logo :
+http://www.mandriva.com/fr/mentions-legales/mentions-legales#graphics
+
+
+> >> > And more ever, what would be trademarked that we could not remove once
+> >> > we found out ?
+> >> 
+> >> Names, images, themes, colors.
+> >> Since there is still no svn obliterate command, this is quite hard to
+> >> remove once imported.
+> >
+> > So this would also mean we will import only after having cleaned the
+> > various packages ?
+> >
+> > This mean then that a review must be started ASAP ( in my humble
+> > opinion ).
+> 
+> Yes, I started looking at that back in August, and mentionned this in
+> the project chan.
+> 
+> On a minimal install without suggests, I found this files with
+> the "mandriva" name: http://pastebin.com/r5fEpUpQ
+> 
+> These are the most obvious to start with.
+> 
+> But we should check with the board if we want to go that far.
+
+Sure. But what is exactly the question :) ?
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+