Re: firefox -> iceweasel package is probably not legal
Sean Kellogg writes:
> What meaning does Firefox have beyond identifying it as "a browser made by the
> Mozilla Foundation"? (oh, and the actual name of a kind of fox that was
> mentioned earlier). I don't want to give away the farm here, but if you can
> show another meaning then you've really got an argument against my claim.
"Firefox" is the code base that the Mozilla Foundation uses to build
the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It is certainly the user interface
and feature set associated with that code. I thought I said so
earlier. The use of the "Firefox" mark to distinguish web browsers
built and supported by the Mozilla Foundation from any other browser
built from the underlying source code is a relatively recent thing.
To that end, it is courteous and appropriate that Debian expediently
move away from using the "Firefox" name without approval from the
Mozilla Foundation, but I do not think the law requires Debian to move
away so quickly that users are left without a working web browser.
Michael Poole
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