Firefox and Thunderbird

[William Hooper]

Frederic de Villamil said:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Sean Earp wrote:
>
>> Hello All-
>>
>> I'm sure the question has been asked and answered, but I didn't see it
>> on the mailing list archives nor in Bugzilla as an RFE.
>>
>> Is there any particular reason that Firefox and Thunderbird are not
>> included in Fedora?  Maximum PC Magazine just had a showdown between
>> Firebird (the old version of Firefox) and Internet Explorer, and
>> Firebird won  (hands down IIRC).  Thunderbird is extremely stable and
>> has a great interface and nice features.  Now that Fedora has spilled on
>> to 4 CD's, and there is some more room for packages, any reason that
>> Thunderbird and Firefox can't be added to the distribution?  Any info
>> would be greatly appreciated.   Thanks,
>>
>> -Sean
>
> Hi Sean,
> [root at therese root]# apt-cache search firefox
> firefox - Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
> flash-plugin - Macromedia Flash Player 6.0
>
> Seems Firefox is provided by FC2.
>
> My apt-get source for it:
> rpm http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora fedora/1.90/i386 os updates stable
> unstable testing

You have Fedora Extras (aka Fedora.us) sources in there.  That is where
Firefox is coming from.

Another note is that recently some issues surrounding the "Firefox" name
and logos has surfaced (i.e. only being able to use them on "unmodified"
sources):
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200403/msg00006.html

-- 
William Hooper