----- Original Message ----- > From the original post at [1]: > > "Directory Tiles will instead suggest pre-packaged content for > first-time users. Some of these tile placements will be from the > Mozilla ecosystem, some will be popular websites in a given geographic > location, and some will be sponsored content from hand-picked partners > to help support Mozilla’s pursuit of our mission. The sponsored tiles > will be clearly labeled as such, while still leading to content we think > users will enjoy." > > It does not look like an advertisement to me and IMHO it's perfectly > okay if we or users can change/remove some of them and replace with > Fedora ones. And the titles are regenerated with recently visited > webpages and thus works as a history. Yeah, this is the way I understand it. If we will be allowed to change it, I can imagine we can use it in a good way to point our users to Fedora sites as bookmarks do now. As I agree we should deal with this situation case by case - can we check with Mozilla, if we would be allowed to change these tiles first? Jaroslav > > ma. > > [1] > https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publisher-transformation-with-users-at-the-center/ > > On 02/12/2014 03:36 PM, Kai Engert wrote: > > On Mi, 2014-02-12 at 10:46 +0100, Kai Engert wrote: > >> Do the Fedora guidelines allow packaging of software that will show > >> advertisement to the user? > >> > >> Are there any existing packages that already do that? > > > > There are multiple open questions that need answers. I wanted to get the > > first question answered first, but since the discussion has already > > started to discuss consequences, let's get the questions and potential > > consequence spelled out and discussed separately. > > > > This discussion is trigged by http://lwn.net/Articles/585577/ > > > > Question (1) > > > > Are we allowed to ship software in Fedora that dynamically loads > > advertisements from the web and shows them to users? > > > > I'm partly guessing here. I suspect that showing advertisements doesn't > > mean showing things that were decided at build time, but rather content > > that is dynamically decided to be delivered by Mozilla. > > > > I think this question should be answered first, and independently of > > other questions. > > > > Question (2) > > > > Is the Fedora community willing to accept Mozilla's desire to show > > advertisements in Firefox? > > > > This might depend on the amount and kind of advertisement that will be > > shown. The information we've received so far in the public blog doesn't > > clarify this yet: > > https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publisher-transformation-with-users-at-the-center/ > > > > Only if the answer to at least one of the questions (1) or (2) is "no", > > then we must discuss the other questions: > > > > Question (3) > > > > Does removing the advertisement feature of Firefox violate the > > trademark? > > > > We don't know the answer yet, and this will probably require a statement > > from Mozilla. > > > > Only if answer for question (3) were "yes", we'd need to look into > > removing the trademarks, and how exactly to do it (whether we'd do it on > > your own, or if we'd work with another project that already does that). > > > > Personally, my initial reaction is disappointment that the free software > > project I've been contributing to since 2001 considers to use it as a > > mechanism to deliver advertisement, but I'd like to wait with my final > > judgement until we hear more details. > > > > Kai > > > > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
