Rightness of firefox

[Fabio Alessandro Locati]

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 <gmatht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Fabio Alessandro Locati
> <fabiolocati at gmail.com> 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
>



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