Re: Mozilla Firefox's icon and trademark

[Gustavo Franco <stratus@acm.org>]

Eric Dorland wrote:

> * Scott James Remnant (scott@netsplit.com) wrote:
>  
>
> > On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 23:25, Eric Dorland wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > So, how should I approach the Firefox developers (or branding team)?
> > > or should I merely rename the browser in Debian to something like
> > > Icerabbit (you get the idea) to skirt these thorny legal issues. It
> > > seems OpenOffice.org has similar restrictions on their logo
> > > (http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/summary.html), how were they
> > > handled?
> > >
> > >      
> > The solution's obvious; name the Debian package and program within it
> > "phoenix".
> >
> > $ apt-get install phoenix
> > $ phoenix
> >    
>
> Well the reason the firefox developers renamed phoenix was because
> that name had legal problems of it's own. And that doesn't solve the
> problem of It's-called-Firefox-everywhere-except-Debian. 
>  
Fir---x ?  :P

IMO, it's time to move it to -legal and contact the Mozilla developers.

Thanks,
Gustavo Franco