Firefox trademark shenanigans (Re: Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?)

[Kevin Kofler]

Arthur Pemberton <pemboa <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Sorry to jump in here. But from what I've read, it seems that MozCo is
> cool with Fedora as things stand.

But for how long? I think the patch approval process can also be a constraint 
on the Fedora Legacy team. Currently, Legacy is simply upgrading rather than 
backporting, and even working on packaging Seamonkey to replace the 
discontinued Mozilla Suite for the older distros (that gratuitous name change 
is also due to Mozilla's trademark policies, by the way), but what if they want 
to work together with the Debian stable people on backporting fixes instead? I 
don't think being shackled by a restrictive trademark agreement is what Free 
Software is about.

Also, do you like how Mozilla is using this as an argument to pressure Debian 
into compliance? "See, Fedora does what we want, why don't you?" I think this 
places Fedora entirely on the wrong side of the fence.

And have you read the thread this one forked from? The trademark arrangement is 
also one of the reasons F*****x doesn't (always) use the "early testing of 
development versions in Rawhide" scheme which is successfully used for several 
other packages (GNOME, kernel, KDE before we got the long-lived 3.5 branch we 
have now etc.). (Yes, I said "one of", I know Chris Aillon also brought up 
others.)

> I personally do not use Firfox as my primary browser,

Neither do I, long live Konqueror! :-)

        Kevin Kofler