[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

[nicolas vigier]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, andre999 wrote:

> nicolas vigier a écrit :
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, andre999 wrote:
>>
>>> nicolas vigier a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Tux99 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Quote: Christiaan Welvaart wrote on Thu, 10 March 2011 23:26
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Unfortunately the seamonkey name and logos are trademarked and the
>>>>>> license
>>>>>>>> terms are most likely not acceptable so it seems to me we'll have
>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> rename/rebrand it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is it different than firefox license terms ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Same rules AFAIK, see
>>>>>>      http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html
>>>
>>> Indeed, exactly the same rules.
>>>
>>>>> I don't see why we need to change the name. The policy says:
>>>>>
>>>>> "If you compile Mozilla unmodified source code (including code and config
>>>>> files in the installer) and do not charge for it, you do not need
>>>>> additional permission from Mozilla to use the relevant Mozilla Mark(s) for
>>>>> your compiled version."
>>>>
> ...
>>>> And it seems mandriva seamonkey package also has some patchs :
>>>> http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/seamonkey/current/SOURCES/
>>>
>>> These are mosty against obsolete versions of Seamonkey. (Which may predate
>>> the current Mozilla policy.)
>>
>> This is the package for version 2.0.12, which is the latest version,
>> released 2 weeks ago. Is this what you call an obsolete version ?
>
> Didn't notice that, about 5 pages down.  And they were mostly localisation 
> modules, I assume unmodified.  In any case, most correctives should be 
> available in (Mozilla) cvs.

I'm not talking localisation modules, I'm talking about the patches.

And I doubt you will find anything interesting for new versions on
Mozilla CVS as they have been using Mercurial for a few years now ...