Am Freitag, 10. November 2006 11:51 schrieb Jan de Groot: > On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 11:39 -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > Jan de Groot wrote: > > > > I thought I saw in the referenced forum thread > > (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=25541) that Arch had received > > permission to brand it. Is that so? If so, then maybe we can restore > > the name & icon onto the package. This isn't a big deal, of course, but > > it's just nicer to use the official Firefox branding if possible. > > We have permission to use branding yes, but only on the releases they > approve. I don't like to submit my PKGBUILDs and patches to mozilla for > review for every $pkgrel++ or $pkgver++ I do. Fedora is always 2-3 weeks > behind on new firefox releases because of this.
Even if you would be willing to do this, it would still be wrong IMHO (as I'm not a dev that doesn't count for much, though). Just imagine if every FLOSS package out there would require this. Patched your kernel? Get permission to call it Linux first (it is trademarked after all). Patched Apache? There you go. Or to stay with browsers, imagine any patch to Konqueror (no matter how trivial) would have to be checked with KDE first! How many packages are there in the repos? Imagine Arch, Debian, or any other distro would have to do this for every package. It would make any kind of polished distribution totally unfeasible. Distributions exist in part to iron out the kinks left in by upstream providers. Why does Mozilla assume that they are special? Don't support this "we are more important than anybody else" behavior by following their rules. Can't call it firefox? Well, then don't. It is not in the spirit of the free/open source software community. A re-branding to ArchBrowser (or something similar) would be nice, though. "Bon Echo" is terrible, but is still a nice piece of software that I enjoy to use after all. Just my 2 cents. - Björn _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
