Re: mozilla thunderbird trademark restrictions / still dfsg free ?

[Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>]

Brian Masinick wrote:
> "mozilla _wants_ us to make some changes to the thunderbird package in 
> order to
> not infringe their trademarks."
>
> I think plenty of dialog with Mozilla is a good idea.  If they don't 
> like the
> way we package Thunderbird or any of the other packages,

I should point out again that (given the discussions I've had with the 
Thunderbird maintainer) we are almost certainly going to be happy with 
what Debian itself does.

> Debian Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox
> Debian Email client based on Mozilla Thunderbird
> Debian browser suite based on Mozilla

As someone raised earlier, isn't this just replacing one trademark 
problem with another (Debian)?

Those also aren't particularly wieldy names for a title bar or package ;-)

> I have a hard time believing that after all this time they want people
> to get away from their names, but if that's really what they want, let's
> do it.  

No, we don't want people to get away from the names. But we do want a 
way of ensuring that they are a mark of quality in trademark terms.

Gerv