Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee

Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by Xylakant on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:23AM (#8630475)

Why that? AFAIK, they were not allowed to use the name firefox since their version of firefox contains or used to contain unofficial patches and mozilla forbids the use of the name "firefox" in that case.

Renaming was one of the options, dropping the patches the other.

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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by Lai0chee on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:32AM (#8630528)

How do other distros solve this "issue"?

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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by sethrin on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:42AM (#8630582)

Please see this for more background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...

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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by Xylakant on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:37AM (#8630555)

AFAIK, they do not include unofficial patches.

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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by _delirium on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:49AM (#8630629)

Some do, but they have them Mozilla-approved. Vendor-specific patches are allowed in a product called "Firefox", if Mozilla approves the patches before release. I believe Red Hat is one vendor that does that. Debian won't agree to include a package that needs third-party approval of modifications, though.

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Re:Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee by Xylakant on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @11:54AM (#8631097)

I'm sorry about the miswording - I meant "unoffical" as in "not officially approved". Thanks for the correction.

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