Re: Using Gnome Vendor

["Mike Newman" <mike gtnorthern demon co uk>]

>     Not really. gnome.org distributes a version of GNOME - it vends 
it. OK,
>     it doesn't sell it, but it's still a distributor.
> 
> It's a distributor, and makes sense to list as the distributor.
> The only problem is in the current terminology, which assumes
> that every distributor is a vendor.
> 
> The name should be changed to "distributor", or "packager", or
> something else, something that fits all distributors, not just those
> which are vendors.

If I recall correctly, the term 'vendor' only appears currently in the 
gnomeversion.xml file, and is not visible to the user anywhere.

The contents of the <vendor>foo</vendor> tag appears as:

GNOME 2.x.x (foo)

in About GNOME etc.

Mike