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On 08/12/2010 10:59 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
That's why I'm so frustrated that Fedora seems to be committed to keeping the Mozilla trademarks, which moot any discussion of whether to deviate for those packages. But this is only my opinion. Fedora is welcome to set its own course, and I am welcome to fork (in theory at least).
You're making an assumption here that it's the trademarks that prevent any deviation from upstream, when in fact the maintainer has stated many times that regardless of trademarks, he would not deviate from upstream given the sensitivity of a software suite that has to connect to the wild wild web. The maintenance burden of upstream deviation is greater than the maintainer would like to undertake, as is the risk of security issues and stability.
The kernel folks are likely walking the same path. For core components such as the kernel and our web browser, this does not seem like a bad thing at all.
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