"Staying close to upstream"

[Jesse Keating]

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On 08/12/2010 10:59 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
>  That's why I'm so frustrated that Fedora seems to be committed
> to keeping the Mozilla trademarks, which moot any discussion of whether
> to deviate for those packages.  But this is only my opinion.  Fedora is
> welcome to set its own course, and I am welcome to fork (in theory at
> least).
> 

You're making an assumption here that it's the trademarks that prevent
any deviation from upstream, when in fact the maintainer has stated many
times that regardless of trademarks, he would not deviate from upstream
given the sensitivity of a software suite that has to connect to the
wild wild web.  The maintenance burden of upstream deviation is greater
than the maintainer would like to undertake, as is the risk of security
issues and stability.

The kernel folks are likely walking the same path.  For core components
such as the kernel and our web browser, this does not seem like a bad
thing at all.

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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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