Am 26.03.2012 19:46, schrieb Florian Hubold: > I'm currently in contact with some seamonkey developers, to maybe clear up > why/if the rebrand is needed, if it's needed like it's currently done, and > why Fedora can simply ship seamonkey without the need for a rebrand, but > the dialog may take some time, this would be only relevant for option 2.
As a followup, an answer from Justin Callek, seamonkey developer: Am 28.03.2012 19:02, schrieb Justin Wood (Callek): > Florian Hubold wrote: >>>> Could you please expand on this, and tell me if we need to rebrand >>>> seamonkey if >>>>>> we want to ship it, and how far the rebrand has to go and under >>>>>> which conditions we need to do the rebrand. As i'm currently wondering >>>>>> why >>>>>> f.ex. Fedora can ship seamonkey without any rebranding, or do they have >>>>>> official approval? >>>> Top of my head I'm not sure on the Fedora situation, so I won't comment >>>> on that. >> You know whom i can ask about this? No pressing issue, though ... >> Would be nice if somebody could tell me wether the Fedora way is approved, >> because one of my options would be to drop iceape in it's current form >> as it's hassle to maintain, and to reimport seamonkey as Fedora packages >> it: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=seamonkey.git;a=tree >> > Will address the rest of your message later, but this for now... > > I will thank Robert Kaiser for providing the wording for the answer of > the following, not sure if he meant to send it directly to you as well, > but this makes my reply soo much easier. > > `so far, we've handled those cases with a stance of "if you have > permission from Mozilla to ship an officially branded Firefox (and > Thunderbird) with those code changes, you have permission to ship > SeaMonkey with those same changes - if you don't modify the code or > deactivate (major) features, you're always allowed to ship with official > branding." As most of those distros offer Firefox and Thunderbird as > well, usually with higher priorities as SeaMonkey, that has worked out > fine so far without needing special additional rules. ` > > As said I'll skim the changes you mentioned, but if you are able to ship > Firefox/Thunderbird with these changes and with official branding, > consider it a 'go' from us. > OK, so how do we handle this? As there is no explicit permission by Mozilla to have us ship officially branded Mozilla apps, as i've put up before, or at least i don't know of any explicit permission. As this applies to Firefox and Thunderbird as well ...
