Comment 425 for bug 269656

On Wednesday 17 September 2008 14:06, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> No, Scott, we absolutely could not ship what Fedora shipped, and I hope
> you will trust me that that is the case. We also would not have this
> current conversation if we had not chosen to ship what was requested,
> immediately.

If you say that's the case, then of course I accept that. You have
information I don't. Were we required by Mozilla to update the non-EULA
version we had? If Mozilla has authority to require us to change what
they've already agreed we could ship, that's additionally troubling to me.

The fact that I'm sitting here as an Ubuntu core-dev with no idea about what
can and can't be done with this package is emblematic of why these kinds of
packages are problematic in Main/Universe.

I understand why it was decided to keep Firefox official branding in Ubuntu.
There is a limit beyond which we should not go, however. I do hope your
desire to keep the advantages of having the Firefox brand in Ubuntu don't
cause you to go past that point in accomodating them.

Scott K