Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

[Thomas Janssen]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> writes:
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:03:28 -0400,
>>   Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Wouldn't it be sensible to approach the Mozilla folk about getting them
>>> to relax their requirements so that sane packaging is possible?  ISTM
>>> that this must be a problem for other distros too.
>
>> I though we did that several years ago. I wasn't a packager at that time,
>> so I didn't follow what was happening closely.
>
> Well, if we say to them "either you fix this licensing problem or your
> trademarks will disappear from Fedora", it might get their attention.
> Especially if we can get Debian and some other distros to tell them the
> same.

Well, since Debian already has Iceweasel, Mozilla obviously don't care.

IMO, we should go the Debian way.

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LG Thomas

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