XPost: alt.comp.software.seamonkey   
   From: Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   FC wrote:   
   > Andrew wrote:   
   >> OpenSUSE has Seamonkey in two repositories, the main Update repository   
   >> and the Mozilla Test repository.  This is about 42.3 Leap by the way.   
   >> The level I'm running here - 2.53.8.1 - is the last one which made the   
   >> Update repository, although the Mozilla Test repository gets all of   
   >> the release versions and - it seems - at least some of the beta versions.   
   >>   
   >> Today I asked the maintainer if he could update the version in   
   >> "Update" to a more recent released level, and this was his reply.   
   >>   
   >>> I'm afraid there's nothing I can do -- I've been submitting the new   
   >>> versions as soon as they've been released, but they've all been stuck   
   >>> in legal review.  I and other packagers have been occasionally   
   >>> nudging the lawyers but we never hear back from them.   
   >>   
   >> Does anyone know why a new Seamonkey level requires "legal review", in   
   >> particular when this level is freely available in another repository   
   >> anyway.   
   >> When Tristan refers to "other packagers", that reads as though other   
   >> products are also affected.  What the F is going on here?  Are the   
   >> lawyers getting involved in things which do not concern them?   
   >>   
   >   
   > There are general Linux builds for 64-bit and 32-bit.  Is SUSE unable to   
   > use those?  If a modification has to be done for SUSE to use SeaMonkey,   
   > it would explain why a lawyer is needed, since SeaMonkey is trademarked,   
   > and one may not distribute a modified version without legal consent.   
   >   
      
   As I said in my original post, openSUSE's "Mozilla Test" repository was   
   always very up to date - to the extent of releasing test versions of   
   Seamonkey quite frequently.   
   I wanted to restrict this machine to actual releases, a policy which has   
   been very useful several times.  What provoked my posting was   
   discovering that unspecified legal reasons were preventing new versions   
   from making it to the standard "update" repostory.   
   The new - and current - version arrived around 8 hours ago so the   
   problem has been solved for the time being.   
      
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