On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram metherid@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?(ยน)
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.