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

[Kevin Kofler]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> You can't modify Fedora under F/OSS principles and still call it Fedora,
> just like you can't modify Firefox under F/OSS principles and still call
> it Firefox. Both of us do this to protect the good name of the project.
> We'd be in an extremely glass house-y situation if we tried to 'call
> out' Mozilla over this. It'd be ridiculous.

That has not been an issue for Debian.

It perfectly makes sense that you'd want to protect your own name, but still 
not use somebody else's similarly protected name because it prevents you 
from shipping what you want to ship.

        Kevin Kofler