Jonathan Wilson wrote: > What exactly is the problem here? > Whats wrong with simply taking one of the many pieces of artwork that > people keep comming up with and posting and checking it into the tree,
I don't know the specific details (wasn't here when this came up the first time), but it's something about mozilla's liscencing scheme doesn't allow them to maintain copyright over any images they produce. As a direct result, people could take whatever art mozilla had and stick it on whatever product they wanted (no matter how bad) and release it to an unsuspecting public. For this reason or one like it, netscape refuses to release the image of mozilla (green lizard one) to mozilla.org. Also for this reason, the drivers refuse to check any new art into the tree. Bug 32218 is for a new splash screen,73712 is for icons for each window, 77871 is for a new throbber. The drivers *will not* check any of these in and say that mozilla probably will have to have the current versions of these re-done. > this solving this "communist" problem once and for all? I don't see a "communist" problem, I see a couple of trolls on a newsgroup (along with all the people they catch, including me apparently) complaining about a "problem" that doesn't exist. Why does it not exist? Because you can change the graphics to whatever you want, they're not hard coded into the browser. You want a different image on the about: screen? STICK YOUR OWN IN! You want a different splash screen? STICK YOUR OWN IN! You want different icons for each window? STICK YOUR OWN IN! You think the browser throbber sux? STICK YOUR OWN IN! I've done all this before, it isn't difficult. I'm actually working on guides to walk people through the processes. In fact, mozilla is designed for people to take and release as commercial software, so it's extremely easy to re-brand the browser. And doing all this stuff still took me less time than ALL THE TIME JTK AND OTHER TROLLERS HAVE SPENT IN THIS NEWSGROUP WASTING MY TIME AND BANDWIDTH. If I *ever* saw these people do *anything* to help the project, I would think about what they say, but they don't. That pretty much sums up my view, so I'll not be posting regarding this subject again. grayrest
