On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/05/2010 06:26 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Maybe I'm missed something, but there is a (relative) simple question
> that always pops up in my head when I read things like this. I never
> bothered to ask it in public, but I'll do now:
>
> * Why haven't those that want iceweasel and icedove in Fedora not
> simply invested some time and got them integrated into the repository?(¹)
>
> It wouldn't be the first (albeit it likely would be the biggest) fork
> where we also still ship the original (dd{,_}rescue comes to my mind),
> hence I'd assume the packaging guidelines do not forbid something like
> that. Or do they?
No but that would involve actual work rather than merely making the
claim that software licensed under GPL/MPL is non-free if it doesn't
allow the use of a name when patches are applied to it.
Rahul
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I don't blanket label everything with open code as "free software".
Some stuff bundles things which make it non-free. Code open-ness !=
free. You can call Firefox open source if you want, but it's not free
software.