[Possibly OT] Trademarks

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Jan 10 21:35:16 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:21:26PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> pine license allowed for patched versions to be distributed if the
> name was changed to indicate that the distributed copy was not the
> same as upstream.

And various other contortions were followed.

> What happens if you want to put in a patch into fedora that upstream
> mozilla does not agree with?  If you have to continue to get upstream

We change the name. We did that with Apache (we ship "httpd"). And I'd note
we ask third parties to do the same if they revamp Fedora into something
else.




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