Re: firefox -> iceweasel package is probably not legal
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:57:48PM -0800, Jeff Carr <basilarchia@gmail.com> wrote:
> I notice that recently you have complied with Mozilla's request to not
> use their trademarks for your browser packages. However, you can't
> also use their trademark to switch users to a competing product.
> ("bait-and-switch") The same trademark issues are why there is not a
> package called openoffice. It must be called openoffice.org.
>
> For instance, if Best Buy provided a packaged product called "firefox"
> that instead had IE or a nearly indistinguishable competing product
> (iceweasel) this would also be trademark infringement.
It would be infringment if the product was packaged as firefox. In our
case, the product is iceweasel, we're just hinting people on it.
Mike
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