Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes:
> Debian has two choices: 1. Use the same user-agent as Firefox. 2. Use a
> different user-agent from Firefox.
3. Use a Debian user-agent string that includes the string "Firefox".
See, for example, the user-agent strings used by every other browser on
the planet.
> The first is a non-option. Iceweasel does not follow Mozilla's trademark
> usage guidelines. If it uses the Firefox trademark and Debian distributes it,
> Debian could be sued into non-existence.
Nonsense. There is no conceivable way that embedding the string
"Firefox" in a user-agent string could be construed as trademark
infringement (and if there was most browsers would be infringing one or
more trademarks).
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John Hasler
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