On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:56:23AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > ===Begin resolution text=== > The Debian Project has been watching the case around the Mozilla > Project's EULA requirement for people wishing to use their trademarks > from a distance. This is an issue that has been brewing for a few years > now; and even though we've chosen not to use the Firefox, Thunderbird, > Mozilla, and Seamonkey trademarks, we still feel that we ought to make > our position on this important issue clear. > > The Free Software community as a whole is based around the notion that > one should be allowed to modify software when they feel it necessary; > and that the right to such modification and subsequent redistribution is > a basic right to users that should not be taken away. > > The tendency that is apparent in the Mozilla Corporation, which is to > use trademark law to enforce certain requirements which we would not > usually consider to be characteristic of Free Software, is something > that the Debian Project finds disturbing. Free Software is about > Freedom; and whether that freedom is restricted through copyright law or > trademarks really is of no concern. > ===End resolution text=== > > Basically, only the final paragraph changes. > > If my seconders can agree with this edited version, I'll retract my > original version. I second the new text as well. I didn't find the previous text actually relying on the EULA, so I don't retract support for that. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://a82-93-13-222.adsl.xs4all.nl/e-mail.html
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