On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:28:49PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
Package: xen-hypervisor-3.0-unstable-1-amd64
Version: 3.0-unstable+hg11561-1
Severity: serious
It seems Xen has a similar trademark policy as the much discussed
Mozilla one. Specifically http://www.xensource.com/xen-tm-faq.html
says:
| 16. If I distribute a changed version of the Xen??? hypervisor, may I
| say that the changed product is the Xen hypervisor?
|
| No. If you have changed an Official Version of the Xen hypervisor in
| any way, then you have created something that is not an Official
| Version of the Xen hypervisor. Because such a code base is entirely
| beyond the oversight and quality control processes of XenSource, you
| may not use the Xen??? trademark in any way in connection with your
| product, and must use a different trademark for your product that will
| not cause confusion with the Xen trademark or any other XenSource
| trademark.
This seems to make it impossible for Debian to patch released xen
packages when security related bugs occur.
Not just that. If they release binary versions, we may not even be able
to release binary versions. What I mean is, they may consider the act
of compiling specifically for Debian a changed version. Has anyone
asked them that question? There is also the issue of locations of
things on a Debian system, which may not match up with the defaults of
the upstream confguration.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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