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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 12:45, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: |
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> >>>>> "Luke" == Luke-Jr <luke7jr@×××××.com> writes: |
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> Luke> Have the Mozilla people been contacted? They could probably |
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> Luke> grant special permission for certain patches or perhaps even a |
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> Luke> blanket "ok" that covers most patches the ebuilds might use... |
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> I read through most of the thread on debian-legal. There they |
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> (the mozilla foundation) started out saying they wanted a list |
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> of the patches applied and would 'probably be able to approve' |
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> them.... Obviously that didn't fly, but I didn't see a final |
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> resolution to the problem there. |
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> The alternative is to call it something else and use gentoo- |
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> specific artwork. |
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> Note that this also applies to the mail client (was it thunderbird?) |
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> and the artwork that is part of mozilla. |
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> One hopes they come to a reasonable compromize that will work for the |
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> dists, since I'm sure every dist includes patches. |
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I'm just curious, but wouldn't this only possibly affect the *-bin |
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ebuilds for mozilla/firefox/thunderbird? If so, is it even really an |
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issue, since we provide the original binary distribution from mozilla? |
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I know that we would need to look into this for GRP, but for the regular |
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distribution, it seems to be a moot point. Am I just wrong here? Can |
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we simply start providing mozilla-bin in GRP rather than mozilla? |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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