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Comment 12 for bug 645300

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In , Richard (richard-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #7)
> What you really want is an incremental protocol that can deliver the new icons
> & entries w/translations since the last time you updated. Neither a package,
> nor the yum metadata, fits this well. Honestly, an online service with local
> caching seems more appropriate.

I prototyped this, but it wouldn't have scaled well, and there were inconsolable differences with debian, e.g versions, icons and translations for iceweasel.

> (As a side point, legally, you'd have to have the license be "A & B & C &
> D.."... where that's the license of all the icons in total. And don't forget
> trademarks. This gets messy fast.)

I'll get the generate script to generate the licence string and update the spec. Thanks.