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Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems



Bill Allombert wrote:
1) The name of the package (.deb file if you want). This cannot be
changed with much disruption. Does MoFo claims trademark right on
firefox or mozilla-firefox when used as package name ?

2) files shipped in pathname including the string mozilla-firefox or
firefox, e.g. /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox, /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/chrome.
Does MoFo claims trademark right on firefox or mozilla-firefox when used
in pathname ?

These are good questions. Although we would like to claim rights here, leaving aside the legal issue of whether we _can_, I can see the practical problems this represents. So, if you were to use the trademark, and then subsequently permission to use was withdrawn, we would not require you to change the package names and pathnames (although we would request that you migrate away from them over time).

Gerv



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