Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

Haïkel Guémar karlthered at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 11:01:24 UTC 2010


Le 28/07/2010 12:45, Brandon Lozza a écrit :
> 
> Mozilla's trademark requirements violate Freedom #2
> The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it
> do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a
> precondition for this.
> 
> We're NOT allowed to make changes (patches) without their permission.
> This is defacto non-free. I understand we work with upstream but that
> shouldn't prevent us from maintaining it.

That's just the same with most distro trademarks (fedora, debian, etc ...)

Mozilla does not forbid you to study/modify/distribute their work but as
fedora to distribute a modified version under their trademark.
That's why we have generic-* packages in our repositories.

Best regards,
H.


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