Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Spicebird/Thunderbird - fully free enough ?

[Sam Geeraerts]

A.J. Venter schreef:
> So - has there been any work done to try and provide a trademark-safe
> version of thunderbird that doesn't recomend non-free
> extensions/themes ? Like we have firefox in IceCat and it's Ilk ? I
> haven't found any (but it may just not have made the news as much
> because frankly, it's a smaller issue than web-browsers, there's a lot
> more variety in the mail space) - if there isn't... shouldn't we be
> doing something about that - or do we settle for recommending (and
> ourselves only shipping) projects like kmail and such over projects
> like thunderbird ?

In gNewSense, Thunderbird was stopped from recommending non-free 
extensions and themes by modifying /etc/thunderbird/pref/thunderbird.js. 
That's just a configuration change, so the trademark issue didn't come 
into play (any more than it does for Ubuntu, anyway).

The major problem with Firefox is that references to the Flash plugin 
(and other non-free plugins) is baked into it. AFAIK, that is not a 
problem with Thunderbird. The trademark thing is annoying, but not such 
a problem that we need a special Gnuzilla version of it.