Frank Ludolph wrote: > All distros built with the distro constructor will automatically and > unavoidably create distros that contain Sun's opensolaris > trademarks/branding. This is contrary to the opensolaris brand > guidelines which state that only Sun's distros can contain this > branding. Others must use their own branding and might, given their > content, be able to use the opensolaris trademark with a tagline, e.g. > 'Based on OpenSolaris" or the weaker "uses OpenSolaris technology". > > It would seem that maybe a brand package with "uses OpenSolaris > technology", the weakest legitmate branding that could be used with a > distro built from the repository, should be in the repository, and that > the distro constructor might support overriding it with a > non-repository-resident brand package in its place. This would enable > Sun to control its branding and interested third parties to create their > own branding. One-off distro builders would automatically have an distro > with the weakest tagline trademark used in any distro they build, which > is desireable according to the trademark guidelines. > > This also supposes that all branding would be consolidated into a single > package, but that's another issue. >
A single package seems unlikely, since branding elements come from multiple consolidations. More likely to me would be to use either per-brand packages with exclude dependencies, or the variant work that Bart is adding to packaging and allow construction to select the desired variant. Dave
