[openbeos] Re: Haiku distro guidelines [was: Haiku Vmware Build Environment]
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:16:48 +0200 CEST
> "Please include the following disclaimers in a conspicuous place in
> your
> website, your AboutSystem version, and the documentation of your
> distribution:
>
> <DISTRO NAME> is based on Haiku, but it is not the official
> distribution
> from the Haiku Project. For information about the official Haiku
> project,
> please visit http://haiku-os.org.
>
> <DISTRIBUTOR NAME> is not associated with the Haiku project. To
> obtain
> support for <DISTRO NAME>, please contact <DISTRO SUPPORT INFO>."
>
> Pay attention to the 'about system' part. Apparently that means
> removing
> 'Haiku' (in green) from the about application and replacing it with
> your
> distro name... And then it would look foolish to have *distroname
> copyright
> Haiku and a link to Haiku's website which is what you're trying to
> avoid in
> the first place I take it...
>
We might want to add code to AboutSystem to first read a
DISTRO:COPYRIGHTS resource and prepend that to the text in the source
code
That would allow one to create his distro without changing the source
code but just using the AddResources rule in a jamfile.
François.
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