On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Martin Stransky <stransky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/23/2010 09:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 04/23/2010 09:03 AM, Martin Stransky wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> we're patching mozilla packages only for really critical issues because >>> of mozilla trademarks. We can't put any patch we want to the mozilla >>> package and ship it as 'Firefox' or 'Thunderbird'. >> >> Thanks for providing evidence of how trademarks are being applied to >> void the benefits of "open source". >> >> The obvious logical consequences of what you say would be >> * either to remove the packages you are referring to from Fedora because >> they are effectively unmaintainable. >> >> * or to remove the trademarks and re-brand the packages. >> >> /me ducks and hides for cover. > > No, you get it wrong. It's about cooperation, we work with upstream to > release one valid product. See the upstream bug, the fix may be included > in next security update. ...*may be included* in next security update. Well, Ralf is right. That situation is just sick. To have a patch that fixes a crashing application but it can't be applied, because of Trademark/Branding problems. And even worse, that the app has to crash for *everyone* to get it faster. But i guess it's better i shut up, since i don't use Mozilla products. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
