trademarks [was: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs]

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:00:50PM +1000, Brendan Jones wrote:
> On 10/07/2010 12:10 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > But I agree that having a strict requirement because it's felt that the
> > issues that are raised by allowing the requirement to be violated are very
> > problematic for us as a distro but then letting certain things bundle
> > because they're more important than other packages is morale sapping.
> > Fesco is voting in the trac ticket on whether to allow libvpx to be bundled
> > and also whether to allow bundling of any library that mozilla decides to in
> > the future; I think if that passes the FPC will have to look at making it
> > easier for other packages to do the same.
> >
> > -Toshio
> >
> Surely its the users choice. I hate the fact that a distro feels the 
> need to align itself with one or the other - there are plenty 
> alternatives out there (which aren't chromium) that do the job. Let's 
> support these or stop whinging and fork firefox.
>
Uh..... I'm talking purely about bundled libs here which are
a distro/maintainer/packager issue much more than a user issue.  It becomes
a user issue if the distro can't do it's job and keep all of the bundled
libraries up to date and the user is forced to circumvent the distro
packaging.

Trademarks may be more about users butthat's not what I'm talking about
here at all.

-Toshio

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