* Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo (jsogo@debian.org) wrote: > El mar, 14-06-2005 a las 16:45 -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães escribió: > > > Let's say we call it mozilla-firefox (assuming we are allowed to > > > in the first place) and downstream (making some modifications) is > > > not allowed to call it mozilla-firefox. If we call it > > > debian-firefox then downstream is still not allowed (under the > > > same conditions) to call it mozilla-firefox. The difference is not > > > > You seem to be wrong about the Mozilla Foundation's trademark > > policy. They say no one (ok, they excepted Debian especially, but > > *I*, personally, do not think this flies because of DFSG#8) can use > > the words Mozilla or Firefox (or Thunderbird etc) in their browser. > > So, if we rename the browser, we must call it (for instance) > > IceWeasel, and yes, any person downstream from us can call it > > anything but Firefox or Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox. > > BTW, we should remove any gecko based browser too. After all they > depend in MOZILLA-browser. Not only firefox is going to be blamed here. AFAIK, "Mozilla" is not trademarked. -- Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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