Downgrading Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed May 13 21:36:01 UTC 2009


On 05/13/2009 02:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/13/2009 11:37 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> You do realize that Fedora's trademark policy is even "worse" ?
>>
>> But we don't expect all third parties to go through the trademark approval
>> process (and they don't or even can't, for different reasons), we have them
>> ship generic logos, the new Fedora Remix artwork (which also has a policy
>> to follow, but a less strict one when it comes to modification of the
>> software than Firefox!) or their own logos instead. I don't see why we
>> shouldn't do the same for Firefox.
>
> Firefox already allows easy rebranding. If you want to fork, you can
> take advantage of that but what exactly do you want to patch that
> Mozilla is not allowing you to do?

Better yet, what bug have you filed against the Fedora package that I 
have refused to patch locally without good reason?  Sending things to be 
fixed upstream and waiting for upstream to take the fix is not uncommon 
for any package in the distro.




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