On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Martin Stransky <stransky(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 04/23/2010 09:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 04/23/2010 09:03 AM, Martin Stransky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we're patching mozilla packages only for really critical issues because
>> of mozilla trademarks. We can't put any patch we want to the mozilla
>> package and ship it as 'Firefox' or 'Thunderbird'.
>
> Thanks for providing evidence of how trademarks are being applied to
> void the benefits of "open source".
>
> The obvious logical consequences of what you say would be
> * either to remove the packages you are referring to from Fedora because
> they are effectively unmaintainable.
>
> * or to remove the trademarks and re-brand the packages.
>
> /me ducks and hides for cover.
No, you get it wrong. It's about cooperation, we work with upstream to
release one valid product. See the upstream bug, the fix may be included
in next security update.
...*may be included* in next security update.
Well, Ralf is right. That situation is just sick. To have a patch that
fixes a crashing application but it can't be applied, because of
Trademark/Branding problems. And even worse, that the app has to crash
for *everyone* to get it faster.
But i guess it's better i shut up, since i don't use Mozilla products.
--
LG Thomas
Dubium sapientiae initium