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Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems



* Martin Waitz (tali@admingilde.org) wrote:
> hoi :)
> 
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:18:19AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > The whole question is whether Debian can accept a Debian-specific
> > agreement to call Firefox "Firefox".
> 
> sure, and the consensus seems to be that there is no problem in
> doing so.
> 
> It's only you who doesn't want to accept that.

Did you actually read the thread? I am not the only one who has a
problem with this. It's quite possible mine is the minority opinion on
the matter, but that does mean their is consensus. 
 
> You've done a great job in maintaining firefox, please don't
> rename your package based on some personal differences with the
> mozilla trademark policy.

I don't have a personal difference with the trademark policy. Have you
read it? It would not be possible for any Debian maintainer to work
under its conditions. Now the question is whether we can accept a
Debian-specific agreement to use the trademark. 

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