[ros-dev] Vote: Allow 3rd-party distribution of ROS through XDCC Bot.

Michael Trausch fd0man at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 13:46:32 CET 2005


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Steven Edwards wrote:
> 
> We cannot stop distrabution of the OS. Only the use of the name.
> 

It would seem to make sense to make it a requirement to change the
version number to reflect that a change has been made and that the
release is not an "official" ReactOS release.  As a hypothetical
example, if I were to fork ReactOS and create releases of it, it
would make sense for me to append -custom or -mt or something to the
version number, to signify that it's a custom/altered release.

Also, for definitive releases and such, it would make sense to sign
the binaries with something like GPG, so that they can be verified
against a ReactOS key for the purpose of signing binary releases.

I think people should be able to state that their release is based
on the ReactOS kernel and applications, but is not official.

This would be similar to the many various Linux distributions, and
what they do with various things, in a way.  Most people tend to
differentiate using obvious language, for example, Dropline GNOME
isn't just GNOME, it's Dropline GNOME, so it's obvious that it's
based on GNOME with enhancements/changes in the source code.

	Later,
	Mike

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