[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

Fri Mar 18 11:18:15 CET 2011

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, andre999 wrote:
+
+> nicolas vigier a écrit :
+>>
+>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, andre999 wrote:
+>>
+>>> nicolas vigier a écrit :
+>>>>
+>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Tux99 wrote:
+>>>>
+>>>>>
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Quote: Christiaan Welvaart wrote on Thu, 10 March 2011 23:26
+>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------
+>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
+>>>>>>>
+>>>>>>>> Unfortunately the seamonkey name and logos are trademarked and the
+>>>>>> license
+>>>>>>>> terms are most likely not acceptable so it seems to me we'll have
+>>>>>> to
+>>>>>>>> rename/rebrand it.
+>>>>>>>
+>>>>>>> Is it different than firefox license terms ?
+>>>>>>
+>>>>>> Same rules AFAIK, see
+>>>>>>      http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html
+>>>
+>>> Indeed, exactly the same rules.
+>>>
+>>>>> I don't see why we need to change the name. The policy says:
+>>>>>
+>>>>> "If you compile Mozilla unmodified source code (including code and config
+>>>>> files in the installer) and do not charge for it, you do not need
+>>>>> additional permission from Mozilla to use the relevant Mozilla Mark(s) for
+>>>>> your compiled version."
+>>>>
+> ...
+>>>> And it seems mandriva seamonkey package also has some patchs :
+>>>> http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/seamonkey/current/SOURCES/
+>>>
+>>> These are mosty against obsolete versions of Seamonkey. (Which may predate
+>>> the current Mozilla policy.)
+>>
+>> This is the package for version 2.0.12, which is the latest version,
+>> released 2 weeks ago. Is this what you call an obsolete version ?
+>
+> Didn't notice that, about 5 pages down.  And they were mostly localisation 
+> modules, I assume unmodified.  In any case, most correctives should be 
+> available in (Mozilla) cvs.
+
+I'm not talking localisation modules, I'm talking about the patches.
+
+And I doubt you will find anything interesting for new versions on
+Mozilla CVS as they have been using Mercurial for a few years now ...
+
+