On Sunday 29 February 2004 04.19, Eric Dorland wrote:
[me: drop mozilla?]
Ok, you're being silly here. The code is free. The name, however, is a
trademark so we might not be able to use it.
Yes, partly, I'm just being silly.
The other part of me feels: first, some people run an open source project (or
call it free software, or Zenaan will explode again), but then they make it
difficult for other projects (such as the volounteer driven Debian project)
to take the advantage that FOSS provides (namely, to change the source code)
by using a trademark law kludge. Now *this* is, imho, just not honest. If
you're publishing a project under an open license, you got to expect that
people take your software and change it. If you don't want that, go
proprietary and sell it for what it is.