Fedora Remix and Adblock extension

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Nov 30 19:52:01 UTC 2009


On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 12/01/2009 12:57 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 00:21 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't really think its quite the same situation. I can't think of any
> >> other package that I can't combine with another package in Fedora
> >> without special permission from a third party. Besides Mozilla, can you
> >> cite a single instance where Fedora Project has special trademark
> >> agreements on modifications that is not inherited by downstreams?
> >
> > Wait a second here.
> >
> > We have the addblock extension packaged in Fedora right now?  And we
> > ship them combined in our "Everything" repo?  And thus far, this is
> > allowed for us to continue using the Firefox trademark?
>
> Appears so.
>
> > Are you going to do some modification to one of these packages in your
> > remix that would change this status quo?
>
> No modifications. Just going to include Mozilla Firefox and the
> extension by default.
>

"and the extension by default".  You're talking, specifically, about a
spin that has the mozilla-adblockplus rpm installed?  That's it, no
alteration of files of any kind?

	-Mike




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