On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 22:52 -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
There is a thing that I have never understood: we ship the Firefox package not branded, for the well known issues with the licensing of the artwork, and that's fine; but are we sure we can name that package "firefox" ? If you ask it to me, I think we can not:
Mike Connor (a Mozilla guy :) said here [1]: "Firefox (the name) is equally protected and controlled by the same trademark policy and legal requirements as the Firefox logo. You're free to use any other name for the browser bits, but calling the browser Firefox requires the same approvals as are required for using the logo and other artwork. [...] If you are going to use the Firefox name, you must also use the rest of the branding."
Mozilla may say that we are "lying" to users, because the name is named firefox, but it doesn't contain Firefox.
Sure we name our package firefox- after the binary named firefox contained within. When they fix their build process to name the unbranded binary differently, perhaps we can adjust our package name accordingly.
IMHO, to avoid trademark violations we should use IceWeasel. -- Yonathan H. Dossow Acun~a http://kronin.bla.cl Estudiante Ingenieria Civil Informatica Unidad de Servicios de Computacion e Internet Fono: +56 32 2654367 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria Valparaiso, Chile