Doug basically pointed out where you can find the information you wanted. Let me just respond to a few things you said: * Asa Dotzler (asa@mozilla.org) wrote: > Before we're willing to sanction the distribution of a modified version > of Firefox under our trademark name and logo, we need to know what those > changes are, specifically. A certain level of modifications are likely > to be fine with us, while others types of changes would probably cause > us concern. You can understand, I'm sure, that we'd be apprehensive > about someone shipping a product called Mozilla Firefox which had > modifications that led to a poor user experience. I understand that you would want Firefox to have the highest level of quality when using that name. But even if you approved of my patches today, what about tomorrow? Would I have to have you approve of every release that I do? If we disagreed and could not find a compromise would you disallow us from using the name? I'm not sure I would be comfortable working in that kind of situation. > The primary concerns I have are that the stability or other > functionality of the application would be negatively impacted by "slight > feature patches" or that your bug fixes would cause unintended negative > consequences. Can you provide us with a specific list of changed that > you're making to Firefox? Even better would be if you could point me > bugs in your bug system that contain the actual patches you've applied > and information about the testing that was done to cover those changes. > I made a few attempts to locate Firefox(/Firebird) bugs in your bug > system but didn't have any luck. > > If they really are minor changes, then I think we can easily come to an > agreement. If the changes are large, especially something like the > inclusion of additional 3rd-party "Firefox extensions" or compiling with > "experimental" mozilla code, that could complicate things. So if were to package the CVS snapshots of firefox, I would not be able to call them firefox (or more likely, firefox-snapshot) or use the artwork? > We certainly would like to see Debian distributing a Firefox build with > the official name and branding and we'd like to work with you all to > come to a resolution that allows you to ship an "official" Firefox and > that allows us to feel comfortable about the quality of products > shipping under our name and logos. I understand you're concern with quality... I'm very concerned with it as well, because every time something breaks I have dozens of angry emails in my inbox. I hope we can come to a resolution as well. -- Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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