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Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarksFedora, Mozilla, and trademarksPosted Apr 29, 2010 2:14 UTC (Thu) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804)In reply to: Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks by joedrew Parent article: Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks Why can't distributions run those tests themselves? I know the Debian maintainer wants to, given his bugs about the testsuite not being freely licensed. I'd forgotten that LWN had covered this topic so recently in Applications and bundled libraries. Jake did link it in this article, but only as a single word talking about a FESCo member's position so I skipped over it, probably thinking it was another mailing list post.
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Fedora, Mozilla, and trademarks Posted Apr 29, 2010 2:52 UTC (Thu) by joedrew (guest, #828) [Link]
They can! And, as you note, Mike Hommey is moving towards doing so for Debian, at least for our unit tests (getting reliable perf data would be involved at the minimum you'd need the same machines we have running our perf tests. But it's doable!). And I'm sure that passing all our tests would give the folks involved in making the trademark decisions a lot of faith in the changes distributions have made!
But without that, and a commitment to keep running the tests (when you upgrade a library from under Mozilla, you have to make sure you keep things working!), justifying using an external library is a lot harder.
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