Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:50:44PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Wouter Verhelst (wouter@debian.org) wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:20:57AM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote:
> > You're free to make /any/ modifications to firefox, as long as you
> > either rename it to something else or get permission to call it firefox.
> > Doesn't sound non-free to me.
>
> Please explain to me why it's alright to get special permission to use
> a trademark but not ok for a software license?
As I explained in another mail:
The fact that the risks for errors in trademark licensing are far
greater. You might entirely lose your trademark with one lawsuit; you
will not lose your ownership of the copyright on one software program
with one lawsuit.
--
The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the
pavement is precisely one bananosecond
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