2010/4/26 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx>: > The Fedora Mozilla packages can be bug-fixed/patched. If Mozilla doesn't > accept the patches upstream first, we would no longer have permission to > use their trademarks, and would need to remove them when we did so. You just said something like "yes we can, but Mozilla will deny" - this is exactly what Ralf told us earlier. > As to why we have not simply patched at will, and discarded the > trademarks, well, I think that is ultimately up to FESCo and the > Maintainer(s) to decide how we wish to operate in that manner. It's not up to maintainer to decide whether to provide non-free package in Fedora. And I don't see why we need to ask FESCo for resolution of this (clearly visible for almost everyone) violation of our guidelines. > Personally, I feel that there is name-recognition value in the Mozilla > trademarks, and we should make every effort to try to discuss a > compromise with them to allow us a bit more flexibility while retaining > the trademark use. Perhaps this is a discussion that could be opened > with Luis Villa? Rebranding can be a difficult task, but this task also can be easily measured in man-hours, man-days or man-months, and this would be a ultimate solution, while chatting with lawers can consume much more time w/o success (nothing personal here). -- With best regards, Peter Lemenkov. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
