[arch-general] Can we use the "Firefox" name?

[Alessio Bolognino]

On Wed 2008-06-11 05:46, Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino 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.
> 
> Discuss!

And I just found this old bug report:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5795

I don't know why I missed it the first time I searched for it.

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Alessio (molok) Bolognino

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