On 8 Nov 2011, at 16:13, Travis Tilley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since the Growl team would still be getting potential support requests and 
> issues for a third party build,

I will put a note on the download page that discourages this.

> it would be a bit more... courteous to change the name and artwork.

Really?  That implies a fork to me.

> It's the same kind of respect CentOS gives RedHat when they do third party 
> builds of RedHat Enterprise Linux based on their freely provided source, and 
> the same reason RedHat requested that their name not be directly 
> associated... even if all the manuals and support documents were otherwise 
> copied word for word.

I'll wait for Chris to request that, although this would simply be a "can't 
download from the MAS?  Get it here..." type affair.  It's not a fork; simply a 
compiled version.

> 
> But then again, CentOS also provides at least a basic level of support,

Indeed - I'm not and I'll be making that clear on the download page.

> even if they haven't been that great at keeping up with upstream changes 
> lately.
> 
> Source code is available, free, and under a significantly more permissive 
> license than the GPL. Anyone who wants to do it themselves can open xcode, 
> turn off code signing, and hit build.

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