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Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem



John Hasler wrote:
> Nominative uses are not restricted by trademark law in the US.  Debian can
> say "Iceweasel is built from the same sources as Firefox." "Iceweasel works
> exactly like Firefox." "Iceweasel is functionally equivalent to Firefox"
> etc. without infringing the trademark.  It is probably legal to have a
> "firefox" symlink in /usr/bin.

    "Ice Weasel, the other white meat!  er...  The other Firefox!"

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