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Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems



* Eric Dorland ::

> * Julien BLACHE (jblache@debian.org) wrote:
> > The Debian Way (tm) would be to drop mozilla, firefox and
> > thunderbird from Debian -- there's no reason what works with the
> > FSF can't work with the MoFo.
> 
> Don't be so militant. Firefox is clearly a popular and useful
> program. There's no reason to be so extreme.

AFAICS the Debian Way would be to re-brand. Caring for the wishes of
our uses (to have a mozilla-like browser in the distro) and to the
wishes of upstream.

>  
> > By the way, what is the status wrt OpenOffice.org, which has the
> > same kind of issue ?
> 
> I'm not sure, I don't think the issues are entirely the same.

Can anyone elaborate on:

(1) is the MPL DFSG-free?
(2) is mozilla-firefox distributed under the MPL?
(3) what is the problem with OOo?
(4) what is the problem with PHP?

Thank you,
--
Massa



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