xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

[Brandon Lozza]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On 10/05/2010 12:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:08 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote:
>>
>>> That's what i've been saying all day. It's only free software if you
>>> change the name, in which case you may loose brand recognition.
>>> Imagine if Linus forbid people from calling their OS Linux if they
>>> didn't use the binaries provided by him.
>>
>> that's the entire point of having trademarks. Free software projects are
>> obliged to allow you to access and modify their code. They are not
>> obliged to allow you to benefit from their reputation.
>
> Close source school of thinking - Trademarks exist to protect an
> enterprise's product and to close out "copyiers". FLOSS exists to enable
> people "to share".
>
>> It doesn't make
>> any sense to say 'I think this product needs to be modified but I wish
>> to be able to represent my modified product as being the same thing as
>> the original product in order to benefit from the reputation attached to
>> the original product'.
>
> The overwhelming majority of FLOSS project think differently. They are
> proud of others picking up their works and to redistribute it.
>
> Or differently: GCC, KDE, QT, GNOME etc. all benefit from them not
> applying trademark restrictions, but from being used (in modified
> versions) on dozens of OSes, distributions etc.
>
> That said, Fedora's leadership is proud of having pushed Fedora into
> isolation.
>
> Ralf
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Richard Stallman got back to me

"I think this is a problem, and FSF people are now studying the
extent of similar restrictions."