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Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems



On Tuesday 14 June 2005 16.20, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote:
> * Towns ::

> > Does calling it "firefox" or "thunderbird" hurt "free software"?
>
> At first, no. But it *does* hurt our users. Why? Because they are
> confident that getting something from the Debian mirror, modifying
> it and re-distributing under the same terms is allowed. And they can
> be burned after some time. And they *will* blame it on Debian.

DFSG 4 again: it is grudgingly allowed that people are required to rename 
what they get from Debian.


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