Downgrading Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed May 13 16:46:31 UTC 2009
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Nathan Grennan wrote:
>> I understand, but on the other hand does Fedora want a dozen bug
>> reports over Thunderbird being useless, because of a crappy default?
>
> The problem is that Fedora can't change anything in Thunderbird (nor
> Firefox) without upstream buy-in because the maintainer refuses to rename
> the programs and thus we're bound by Mozilla's strict (and IMHO completely
> unreasonable and unacceptable in the Free Software world) trademark policy.
What's to stop someone ITP'ing* icecat? Get it in the repo, and go from
there. If you can't work /with/ the maintainer(s), work around them.
(* Intent To Package. Yeah, I'm borrowing Cygwin terminology, sorry. Not
sure what the equivalent in Fedora slang would be.)
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