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Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems



On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:11:32PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 14 juin 2005 à 15:27 -0400, Eric Dorland a écrit :
> > > > And *then* Debian will be left without a mozilla-compatible web
> > > > browser, not without Mozilla itself.
> > > 
> > > There's still Galeon and a couple of others, based on Gecko. Should be
> > > enough.
> > 
> > Julien, I'm not going to remove Firefox from the distro over this
> > issue. Let it go, it's not going to happen. 
> 
> How about removing it until it is completely licensed under the GPL,
> instead of the MPL? Relying on non-free software is much more an issue
> than trademark problems.

Who says MPL is non-free?

And even if it is, wouldn't we cut MoFo (and our users!) some slack
while the relicensing is in progress?

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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