some of those changes, in any case, could be upstreamed to be available to any distro, not only ubuntu, I think (like the firefox-kde patch)
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:19 PM, John McCabe-Dansted <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Fabio Alessandro Locati > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was looking today the firefox package. I noticed that there is a >> huga amount of patches in that package [1]. If I remember correctly, >> is against firefox license to redistribuite it with the same name, >> same logo if changes are made. If this is still true, I think ubuntu >> should remove immediately or the naming/logos stuff or the patches. > > Ubuntu has got permission from Mozilla to make some changes. I don't > know the terms of the deal, but I assume that Ubuntu devs do, and that > they are abiding by them. > > "My goal in our own discussions with Mozilla has been to establish > that it really is possible for a distribution that cares about free > software and Mozilla to agree on a framework which gives us both what > we need. The Ubuntu team went as far as preparing packages without the > Firefox name in case we were unable to reach an agreement – but in the > end the fact that we kept the lines of communication wide open meant > that we were able to find a middle ground and ship the packages we > want while still supporting the Firefox name and Mozilla’s work. > Nobody sold out." > -- http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/79 > > -- > John C. McCabe-Dansted > -- Fabio Alessandro Locati Home: Segrate, Milan, Italy (GMT +1) Phone: +39-328-3799681 MSN/Jabber/E-Mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 5525 8555 213C 19EB 25F2 A047 2AD2 BE67 0F01 CA61 Involved in: KDE, OpenStreetMap, Ubuntu, Wikimedia -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
