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

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Sun Apr 25 16:03:28 UTC 2010


Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> writes:
> The issue is that the Mozilla trademark rules are preventing us from
> packaging software using those trademarks in accordance with our rules.
> I think it would be better for the trademarks to go, rather than granting
> exceptions to the rules.

Wouldn't it be sensible to approach the Mozilla folk about getting them
to relax their requirements so that sane packaging is possible?  ISTM
that this must be a problem for other distros too.

			regards, tom lane


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