Re: [Hampshire] Debian Lenny + Firefox 2.0.0.17 +PrefbarCorr…

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Author: Steve Kemp
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian Lenny + Firefox 2.0.0.17 +PrefbarCorrectionto first email.
On Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 13:31:30 +0100, Phillip Chandler wrote:

> One story I heard regarding the firefox arguement, was that debian was
> doing patches for ff and sending them to mozilla. But mozilla was
> putting these patches on the back burner, and making their own patches
> priority, and that debian then got cheesed off with waiting.


You can read the full story here:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622


Patches weren't an issue. It was purely down to the licensing
of the logos, and Mozilla being unwilling to grant an exemption
which they previously had.

Steve
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