Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun Apr 25 15:08:21 UTC 2010


On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 09:47:26 +0200,
  Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> 
> Those packages are also sometimes not compliant with Fedora policies such as 
> usage of system libraries because any patches to use a system library need 
> trademark approval. This is also just unacceptable. See e.g. the Hunspell 
> fiasco:

Isn't this a FESCO issue? Maybe it is time to reopen this issue?

I don't see how using Mozilla trademarks provides significant benefit
to Fedora. It seems to mostly benefit Mozilla. I don't see why we should
be breaking our rules to help them.


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