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

[Yonathan Dossow]

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 at 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.

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