On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 23:38 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > You can't modify Fedora under F/OSS principles and still call it Fedora, > > just like you can't modify Firefox under F/OSS principles and still call > > it Firefox. Both of us do this to protect the good name of the project. > > We'd be in an extremely glass house-y situation if we tried to 'call > > out' Mozilla over this. It'd be ridiculous. > > That has not been an issue for Debian. > > It perfectly makes sense that you'd want to protect your own name, but still > not use somebody else's similarly protected name because it prevents you > from shipping what you want to ship. I wasn't suggesting it'd prevent us from shipping an unbranded Firefox / Thunderbird if we wanted to. I was just saying that it would stop us from pitching some kind of public hissy fit about how unreasonable Mozilla was being, as Ralf seemed to be advocating. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
