[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux 013rc1 is out!

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:09:46 +0200, André Detsch <detsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> The first release candidate for GoboLinux 013 is available for
> download (http://gobolinux.org/?page=downloads). Help testing it, and
> report
> bugs at our development bugs wiki page
> (http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/013_development_bugs). Final version, or
> next rc, is going to be released in about one week.
>
Good! Nice to see.

> Here is the list of included packages:
>
...
> FireFox 1.5.0.4
First of all this is an old version (there's an update recipe), second  
it's called Firefox not FireFox, and lastly we have to consider how  
Mozilla Corp. would look at this. We still haven't got permission to  
redistribute their browser (or their email client, Thunderbird) with  
official branding and if one looks at how they handles it now one will not  
be able to use the name alone, without the branding, which means that we  
_have_ to have permission, alternatively use their official build,  
repackaged.

Otoh, the source is released as GPL and if one make all the effort  
possible (except patching) to remove the name "Firefox" from the  
application which one gets from compiling the code one will fail. The  
binary would still be called firefox, which, to me, means that Mozilla has  
by releasing the code as GPL lost it's right to the name. Maybe I'm way  
out of line here, but this issue should be solved before we release 013.

-- 
/Jonas

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