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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Alessio Bolognino
<themolok.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed 2008-06-11 18:05, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
>> I've a small dumb question.
>> Why not use official branded version when there are many licensing
>> problems? According to KISS and Arch philosophy (use upstream apps and
>> not to patch unless necessary) this should be a good way.
>
> But what happens if we *have* to apply a patch for some reason (as we
> have to do, right now)? Should we change the package name? And if then
> we don't need that patch anymore because it's merged upstream, should we
> have to change back to the trademarked name? That sounds messy.

If you want the official build, you are welcome to download it direct
from mozilla and install it. That, however, is not the one we
distribute - you have a choice, you don't have to use what we provide