[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Ubuntu/Canonical 'kept the lines of communication wide open' and got an > 'arrangement' with the Mozilla Foundation > <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/79>.
Yet more trolling that mentions the currently-being-changed[1] Debian trademark policy in an attempt to belittle the Debian approach as "not entirely consistent". The article fails to mention that the Debian trademark bug is a known bug (it's somewhere in bugs.debian.org) and that the current Debian Project Leader "deprioritised"[2] fixing it. [1]: http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2]: http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, the firmware-in-etch vote was pragmatism, after it had (sadly) come down to a choice between getting a release including firmware out, delaying to fix that bug, or a bulk recall of delegates. As we can't even recall the DPL after stunts like deprioritising trademark bugfixes and much more, that left including or delaying as likely outcomes. Were the mooted delays realistic? I don't know. How long did it take for gNewSense devs to produce a non-free-less kernel? It's not inconsistency - it's "which goal gets more weight?" Argue the weightings are wrong if you want (please), but the approach is consistent. > Ubuntu will continue > shipping the standard Mozilla Firefox, while GNU/Linux Debian lost their > permission to ship Firefox with a free logo and icon. We didn't lose it. It was taken away. MozCorp know that they are changing the previous agreement between MoFo and Debian. [...] > The Iceweasel name appeared during internal discussions about Mozilla's > trademark problems within the Debian Project in 2004 and 2005. [...] The name appeared first in public http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/02/msg00279.html rather than anything internal. MoFo people participated in later threads there. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work/Laborejo: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request/peteble _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
