Re: firefox -> iceweasel package is probably not legal
On Le Tuesday 05 December 2006, à 23:07:23, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:57:48PM -0800, Jeff Carr <basilarchia@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I notice that recently you have complied with Mozilla's request to not
> > use their trademarks for your browser packages. However, you can't
> > also use their trademark to switch users to a competing product.
> > ("bait-and-switch") The same trademark issues are why there is not a
> > package called openoffice. It must be called openoffice.org.
> >
> > For instance, if Best Buy provided a packaged product called "firefox"
> > that instead had IE or a nearly indistinguishable competing product
> > (iceweasel) this would also be trademark infringement.
>
> It would be infringment if the product was packaged as firefox. In our
> case, the product is iceweasel, we're just hinting people on it.
I know it's off topic but why not ship a firefox package which only
Recommends iceweasel and display a great debconf advertisement for
firefox being *replaced* (or quite) by iceweasel ?
It give hint to user, whithout (if I understand it well) the legal
problems about shipping iceweasel as if it were firefox.
IANADD
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