* Conrad Knauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: "Some changes applied to the debian packages don't > fall in the community edition authorized changes, and there's no way > we want not to apply these." > > If you're referring to the list of "permitted" changes in Community > Editions on > http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition-policy.html > I would really like to see what specifically you think would not be > allowed. One of the permitted changes is "Porting the software to > different operating systems" which would imply a degree of > OS-integration (e.g. updates through apt-get vs. individual programs > downloading updates for themselves). Also, it says below the list:
I'm not sure that's what that clause really means, but one easy example is backported security fixes. Another is just regular bug fixes that aren't in the official releases for whatever reason. > "It is very important that Community Editions of Firefox and > Thunderbird meet (or exceed) the quality level people have come to > associate with Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. We need to > ensure this, but we don't want to get in people's way. So, we are > taking an optimistic approach." > > I would like someone from Mozilla (Mike? :) and someone from Debian > (Eric? :) to sit down and determine if there is actually anything > stopping the Debian FF release from being called "Firefox Community > Edition Debian" right now... If it can, problem solved :) If not, > can the Mozilla CE Policy be altered slightly to accomodate Debian > and/or can Debian move some of the changes into a separate package? I asked Gervase the last time this came up if we could fix the Community Edition Guidelines to make this possible and he said it wasn't possible. If it is now that would be great. > Eric Dorland wrote: "If we call the package firefox, aren't we > claiming that's what it is and hence infringing the mark? I'd > certainly like to keep the package name unchanged, but also if it is > left as firefox and the browser presents itself as "Foobar" might that > not confuse users? > > If the CE idea actually has merit, changing the package to > "firefox-community-edition-debian" or "firefox-ced" or some such (with > an accompanying change in the description) shouldn't be too confusing > to users; plus you could always have a metapackage "firefox" that > installs the CE version. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6
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