On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 17:01:06 GMT, Severin Gehwolf <sgehw...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I think the issue is not the default value, but the special treatment with 
>> default value. Is there a reason we didn't set COMPANY_NAME to "N/A" as in 
>> branding.conf?
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blame/master/make/autoconf/spec.gmk.template#L276-L285
>> 
>> Instead of default to "N/A", personally I think "OpenJDK" as an organization 
>> can be used?
>
>> Instead of default to "N/A", personally I think "OpenJDK" as an organization 
>> can be used?
> 
> OpenJDK is a source only distribution. As such vendor being set to OpenJDK 
> for the binary doesn't make sense. It's the downstream distro shipping the 
> binary that should set it. "N/A" is OK. I don't know if the empty string is a 
> good one.

Point taken.
I would imagine downstream vendor would modify branding.conf to proper value 
instead of using the default.

"N/A" is fine to me, question is whether COMPANY_NAME should be derived from 
branding.conf regardless.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21964#discussion_r1868138657

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