On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 09:17:27AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Especially since Fedora's maintainers *already* compile it, including > > changing some of the defaults. What's a couple more? > AIUI, Mozilla doesn't actually like downstreams changing too much in > Firefox. I don't know exactly where their 'lines' are, but they are > known to assert trademark rights against downstreams to prevent them > changing some things and still calling the result 'Firefox'. (This > policy is why Debian ships 'Iceweasel' or whatever instead - so they > can modify it how they like without Mozilla complaining). There's some definite irony here: this policy is there because there were a number of unscrupulous actors taking Firefox, adding malware toolbars, and offering it for download, thus harming users and tainting their reputation. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
