On 2-Oct-06, at 2:02 AM, Conrad Knauer wrote:
On 10/1/06, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition-
policy.html
>
> One of the permitted changes is "Porting the software to
different operating systems"
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.
Personally I would say that Debian packages with extra security and
bug fixes would 'exceed the quality' of the official Mozilla packages
and thus be a good example of what Community Editions are about:
To my knowledge, Debian isn't including "extra" security fixes over
and above what we're shipping. If they are, that would possibly be
considered an act of bad faith between downstream and upstream,
unless the security bug was Debian specific. This type of potential
"Firefox from foo is better than Firefox from bar" comparison is
something we have explicitly avoided.
The Community Editions policy is possibly unclear, but it's really
talking about porting to BeOS or SkyOS or some other unsupported OS.
There is no provision for patching the source code otherwise.
-- Mike
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