On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:04:16PM -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > I had an interesting response to a post of mine on Slashdot regarding > Iceweasle. Based on some of the early coverage, I had assumed this was > some sort of Debian elitist thing about trademarks and such. It seems > the Debian folks want to be able to back port patches but were told by > the Mozilla folks that they couldn't and still release it as Firefox. > My post pointed out the Fedora and RHEL do that all the time. The > response was that the Mozilla.org folks only want official patches > coming from them and no backports to older versions. Thus, Debian came > up with the Iceweasle approach. This is true, Slashdot or not. Fedora is working in big grey area due to the active involvement of the Fedora engineer with the Mozilla project. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
