On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:30:58AM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote: > mozilla _wants_ us to make some changes to the thunderbird package in order > to > not infringe their trademarks. We knew this was coming. The Mozilla mob wanted their stuff to be treated as if it were non-modifiable even though the license doesn't say so, and we told them to go to hell. Always seemed to me like they don't really *want* to be free software. > So my question ... Is thunderbird still free and suitable for main with > these > restrictions? Uhh... with the name modified so as to break the grip of their trademarks, yes. Without it, probably not; an implicit "You must make the following modifications before you change anything else" clause is really pushing it (it's a lot worse than a "change the name" clause). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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