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Preferred formPreferred formPosted Mar 5, 2011 18:19 UTC (Sat) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)In reply to: Preferred form by corbet Parent article: Commitment to Open (Red Hat News)
> One could say that Red Hat's distribution violates this little provision:
> You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
I do not think this apply to patches, and as a consequence to the RedHat kernel and more generally SRPMS and Debian source packages: the point of this requirement is to prevent a modified version to pass for the original version, but source packages provide the unmodified source tarball (so no file is actually modified, so the requirement is void) and some patches (which in any case include the lists of files which are modified) and even a changelog that list changes with the date.
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Preferred form Posted Mar 5, 2011 18:33 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] The RHEL kernel SRPM is not packaged that way - there is only the (modified) source tarball.
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