Christopher Aillon wrote:
Also, in the past, certain distributors have altered or broken
standards
compliance in their clients with patches, and in continuing to do so,
they no longer ship with Mozilla trademarks. They have effectively
created a different browser and mail client that behaves differently on
some web sites or mail servers. Correctly following open standards is
extremely important for the internet, and the last thing I want is to
effectively create a fork in this way.
You mean "compliance" with Mozilla's own "standards" such as APNG
which
require a bundled hacked version of a system library to support?
We do have an agreement with Mozilla and as such, we are permitted
to
use the Firefox and Thunderbird trademarks. But even if we did not or
it were decided those marks were not important to us, I strongly feel
that we should continue do things the right way and get patches accepted
upstream first.
I think that, sure, we should try to get patches upstreamed, but I don't see
why we'd need to wait for their approval before applying them, other than
due to the aforementioned trademark bureaucracy.
Firefox and Thunderbird are the ONLY high-profile packages in Fedora working
that way, and there must be very few packages in Fedora being maintained in
this style.
Kevin Kofler