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Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems



On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:08:36PM +0200, Rapha?l Hertzog wrote:
> Le vendredi 17 juin 2005 à 14:09 +0100, Andrew Suffield a écrit :
> > > You could also, as a courtesy to other readers, lay before us the
> > > stunningly obvious proof that a free software that elects to use
> > > trademarks automagically transmutates into non-free state.
> > 
> > That would be the part where the trademark holder tells you that you
> > can't distribute modified versions.
> 
> The Mozilla Foundation explicitely gave us that right (or at least they
> are ready to give us this right because they trust us).

After they first told us that we couldn't distribute modified
versions, that was one of several outcomes of debian-legal's
investigation into this matter, yes. There were several others, too.

Oddly enough, I *do* know what happened.

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