[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#391935: Bug #391935: Re: The answer from Citrix & Xen.org

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 07 octobre 2008 à 10:31 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> I’ll ask for clarifications about the rest.

And here are the clarifications.

My understanding is the following:
      * We can call the distributed software Xen as long as it is
        compatible with upstream regarding to VM images support. The
        compatibility test is not yet available, but we could easily
        setup a test suite to be run manually when in doubt. In all
        cases, I’m pretty sure any incompatibility would already be
        considered a bug, and full compatibility with upstream is
        something that we should definitely advertise.
      * If someone wants to make an incompatible version, he will have
        to change the name. Personally, I don’t think this restriction
        is incompatible with the DFSG, as there are no real restrictions
        on modifications. Since we have hands free for patches that are
        relevant to us, this is not a Mozilla-like situation.
      * If we really want to take the paranoid stanza, I guess it would
        be fine to keep the package names and change the descriptions to
        make it clear it is “based on Xen”. However I would find it
        detrimental for both Debian and upstream.

Cheers,
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