trademarks [was: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs]

Brendan Jones brendan.jones.it at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 04:00:50 UTC 2010


On 10/07/2010 12:10 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> But I agree that having a strict requirement because it's felt that the
> issues that are raised by allowing the requirement to be violated are very
> problematic for us as a distro but then letting certain things bundle
> because they're more important than other packages is morale sapping.
> Fesco is voting in the trac ticket on whether to allow libvpx to be bundled
> and also whether to allow bundling of any library that mozilla decides to in
> the future; I think if that passes the FPC will have to look at making it
> easier for other packages to do the same.
>
> -Toshio
>
Surely its the users choice. I hate the fact that a distro feels the 
need to align itself with one or the other - there are plenty 
alternatives out there (which aren't chromium) that do the job. Let's 
support these or stop whinging and fork firefox.


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