Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software
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Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> 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 agree and second the edited version, for similar reasons to before.
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