* Wouter Verhelst (wouter@debian.org) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:20:57AM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > > > Does the opposite make it worse? I think so. > > > > IMHO it makes no difference at all. The "normal", "regular", > > "I-dont-read-debian-mailing-lists" folk install the "Gnome Desktop" > > or the "KDE Desktop" tasks, see the "Web Browser" icon, double-click > > it and voila. As long as it works (and as long as they can install > > the Macromedia plugins), they don't care. The rest of the world > > knows Debian renamed Firefox as Iceweasel to escape Mozilla > > Foundation's arcane trademark license. > > I don't think it's arcane. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to do, > which Debian itself has done in the past (TrustedDebian -> Adamantix) > > You're free to make /any/ modifications to firefox, as long as you > either rename it to something else or get permission to call it firefox. > Doesn't sound non-free to me. Please explain to me why it's alright to get special permission to use a trademark but not ok for a software license? -- 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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