On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Martin Stransky stransky@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.