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Infringement of GPL - court grants preliminary injunction
The netfilter/iptables project has been granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom Germany GmbH for not fulfilling the obligations imposed by the GNU General Public License (which covers the netfilter/iptables code used) - Sitecom did not make the source code available nor did they include the GPL license with their products (GPL is viral). Read the press release from the netfilter project for more details.
Reading the comments here and here had me wondering why people were so surprised by the decision made by the (German) judge. I'd think that the judge would have looked over the GPL and applied the law in accordance with it and copyright law. An anonymous commentor at Groklaw probably said this best.
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New Thunderbird artwork checked in
The Mozilla Visual Identity Team has completed the new artwork for Mozilla Thunderbird, as Steven Garrity (Mozilla Visual Identity Team leader) reports.
Jon Hicks describes the process behind the design of the logo. Go check it out.
Naturally, I'm disappointed by there not being a new default theme for Thunderbird as I'd previously thought had been hinted at. But still, it is a great-looking logo, isn't it? It doesn't look like the mythical Thunderbird in Native American art that Jon Hicks pointed to in his post to me though. That would have looked cooler and made for a less demure bird - it is a thunderbird after all ;).
The new logo is included as the application icon in today's (2004-04-20) nightly build.Looks pretty nice as a 32 x 32 icon.
The smaller 16 x 16 version, however, doesn't seem to scale well and you can't really tell that it's a bird (with a resolution of 1024 x 768).
On a brighter note, the about dialog looks just awesome.
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I stand corrected
Email from an anonymous visitor:
Just to inform you, your tagline -- "rambling's of a misfit" is misspelled. It should be spelled "ramblings."
Ouch. I always thought I knew my apostrophes. Like how there is no apostrophe in "CDs" (it's not "CD's") - short for "compact discs". And the possessive form of "it" is "its" (no apostrophe). "It is", however, can be shortened to "it's". Blah.
Thanks for pointing out my oversight.
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Firefox search now works in textboxes and textareas
The Burning Edge points out that you can now search in textboxes and textareas in a webpage when you do a "Find in this page" search. The corresponding bug is bug 58305 and this enhancement appears in builds on and since 2004-04-16. I sorely missed this, especially so because IE does have this feature - some sites use textareas to display code.
As pointed out in this comment, this works for both the "Find in this page" function (accessible via Ctrl-F or Edit -> Find in this page...) and the "Find as you type feature". But with "Find as you type", the text found is not highlighted due to bug 134586 - selection in text field is invisible when it doesn't have focus. This will probably be fixed by the time Firefox 1.0 is released.
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Thunderbird to get new branding!
Looks like Thunderbird is up for a design update with new branding like what happened with the renaming of Firebird to Firefox. Check out the teaser at hicksdesign.
Also spotted on that page:
You’re in luck. The same folks that made the pinstripe theme for OS X are working on a new theme [for Win32] right now….
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