xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 14:58:40 UTC 2010


 On 10/05/2010 06:26 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Maybe I'm missed something, but there is a (relative) simple question
> that always pops up in my head when I read things like this. I never
> bothered to ask it in public, but I'll do now:
>
>  * Why haven't those that want iceweasel and icedove in Fedora not
> simply invested some time and got them integrated into the repository?(¹)
>
> It wouldn't be the first (albeit it likely would be the biggest) fork
> where we also still ship the original (dd{,_}rescue comes to my mind),
> hence I'd assume the packaging guidelines do not forbid something like
> that. Or do they?

No but that would involve actual work rather than merely making the
claim that software licensed under GPL/MPL is non-free if it doesn't
allow the use of a name when patches are applied to it. 

Rahul


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