xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 4 13:25:29 UTC 2010
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 09:23 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So according to you any free software with a trademark is non-free
> > software? Good luck getting anyone including FSF to agree with that
> > interpretation.
> >
> > Rahul
>
> I'm sure they will. Trademark restrictions violate one of the four
> freedoms and if you want I can ask Richard Stallman directly if this
> trademark rule makes software non-free. Actually I'll just go ahead
> and do it just to prove a point.
>
> If I wanted to Fork Fedora, and I called it Fedora, i'd soon see a
> letter from Redhat legal. I'm not free to use the name. Thus, if I
> fork Fedora I am required by trademark law to rename it or be in
> violation.
You might consider taking this discussion to the legal alias and talking
it over there. It seems to be beyond 'devel' at the moment.
thanks
-sv
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