Interesting conversation, but I think it will work out OK [LWN.net]

Interesting conversation, but I think it will work out OK

Posted Jan 11, 2005 11:47 UTC (Tue) by rene (subscriber, #8057)
In reply to: Interesting conversation, but I think it will work out OK by khim
Parent article: Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks

That is because it is more or less impossible to backport the fixes to
mozilla 1.0.

When it was possible it probably was done and will be done in the future.

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Interesting conversation, but I think it will work out OK

Posted Jan 13, 2005 4:08 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Have you even read what was written before ?

I asked: what's so problematic about trademark issue.

I've got answer: it can preclude Debian from backporting bugfixes - and what then to do ?

I ask: duh... this already happened - and what Debian did ?

This time it's technical difference, next time it'll be trademark - what's the difference ?

The poimnt is: if you want to always have ability to backport fixes - then this gig is already lost clause. And if you'll think about it then you'll need to piss Mozilla developers quite severely to made them forbit porting bugfixes.