a<bar> در تاریخ ۲۱ اوت ۲۰۱۵ ۱۸:۲۴، "Shawn Heisey" <apa...@elyograg.org> نوشت:
> On 8/20/2015 8:03 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > > If a distro takes a release of Apache X, and make significant changes to > > it, and then distributes it, I believe that it's not OK with us for them > to > > simply call it Apache X. I've seen some evidence that Gentoo Linux makes > a > > regular habit of this, because their policies drive them to make some > > pretty scary changes in some cases. Others may not share my view. > > This is how Debian ended up with "iceweasel" instead of "firefox." > Mozilla was not OK with allowing its trademarks to be used for the > version of those products that Debian was including. Mozilla went > 800-pound gorilla on Debian. Debian complied, but took the rebranding > route rather than allow Mozilla to force them to compromise on their > internal guidelines. They got a small measure of revenge with the > package names they chose. :) > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project > > Here's a similar situation applicable to Apache ... the Debian and > Ubuntu projects include a very old version of Apache Solr. The code > gets patched quite a bit, and a few of the changes could probably be > called intrusive, but it doesn't fundamentally change what the user > gets. When the packages are installed (they split the Solr/Lucene code > into *many* binary packages), the file locations are *dramatically* > altered compared to a binary or source download from the Solr website. > > Given what those projects do to our code and packaging, do we have any > right to tell them they can't call their package "Solr"? If we do have > that right, are we losing anything by not exercising it? > > Their changes do mean that when people come to the solr-user mailing > list looking for help, we sometimes have to refer them to the downstream > maintainers, because we can't make any sense of where things are. Even > though it sometimes creates support issues, I personally don't think > there's any big problem with the way that Debian/Ubuntu changes our > software, but what would a lawyer say? > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
