* Simon Huggins (huggie@earth.li) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:16:18AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Marco d'Itri (md@Linux.IT) wrote: > > > I'm here to build the best free OS, not to collect the most liberal > > > trademarks. If a trademark license allows us to ship the software the > > > way we want and there are no practical problems in removing trademark > > > references if it were ever needed then I think it's obvious that we > > > would do a disservice to our users by removing from Debian such a widely > > > know trademark without a good reason. > > Well the whole issue is I don't believe we're allowed to ship the > > software the way we want. We would be compromising our principles by > > doing so. > > Sorry, I think I must have missed something here. Why are you bothering > to ask -devel when you've clearly already decided upon your position? Well I clearly have an opinion on the matter, but I'm not working in vacuum, and I never said I couldn't be convinced. > Like others in this thread I disagree with your position. I don't think > you'd be compromising Debian's principles in doing this as it's just > about the name and it's purported to be easy to change the name if > downstream users do patch it. > > If people want to rip out the guts of firefox then they have to rename > it. I see no problem here. Debian has proved it only wants to do nice, > fluffy things to firefox, Gervase is being accomodating as far as I can > tell. > > Why do you want to make Debian the distribution that users moan about > shipping iceweasel when there is no reason not to just ship firefox? > > Pragmatically yours, > > Simon. Indeed the most pragmatic thing to do is to keep the name. But you don't feel that accepting a deal with the Mozilla foundation is against DFSG #8? Why not? -- 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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