Christopher Aillon wrote: > Also, in the past, certain distributors have altered or broken standards > compliance in their clients with patches, and in continuing to do so, > they no longer ship with Mozilla trademarks. They have effectively > created a different browser and mail client that behaves differently on > some web sites or mail servers. Correctly following open standards is > extremely important for the internet, and the last thing I want is to > effectively create a fork in this way. You mean "compliance" with Mozilla's own "standards" such as APNG which require a bundled hacked version of a system library to support? > We do have an agreement with Mozilla and as such, we are permitted to > use the Firefox and Thunderbird trademarks. But even if we did not or > it were decided those marks were not important to us, I strongly feel > that we should continue do things the right way and get patches accepted > upstream first. I think that, sure, we should try to get patches upstreamed, but I don't see why we'd need to wait for their approval before applying them, other than due to the aforementioned trademark bureaucracy. Firefox and Thunderbird are the ONLY high-profile packages in Fedora working that way, and there must be very few packages in Fedora being maintained in this style. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel