Re: Mailing-list configuration
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 07:26:37AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 6/15/2016 4:23 PM, Rodary Jacques <rodaryj@free.fr> wrote:
> > Not using any MUA, just a browser (Opera, which is BTW in the official
> > Debian list: https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers, non-free but I don't
> > know why as it is a Mozilla clone; Mozilla isn't free
>
> What a ridiculous claim this has always been by debianites...
This is an unnecessary slur. Were it not for Hanlon's razor[1], I'd even
qualify it as malicious.
The thing is that due to Mozilla's trademark policy (which in itself made
sense!), Firefox as such was incompatible with Debian's Free Software
guidelines. Tough luck.
It's of utter importance that a distribution takes its own guidelines
seriously: that's how I, as a user, can trust Debian (in this case,
for example, that I don't incur any liabilities by distributing
(a modified version of) Debian). That's why they went to the lengths
of distributing a forked version of Firefox (the source code itself
was always free!) without the trademark liability.
Of course, it's important to try to sort out things:
> But, the fact is, Debian and Mozilla have buried the hatchet, so even
> Debian officially recognizes Mozilla as free.
perhaps that's what you want to imply with "burying the hatchet".
regards
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
- -- tomás
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