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

John K Masters johnmasters at oxtedonline.net
Wed Jun 11 13:00:34 EDT 2008


On 02:37 Wed 11 Jun     , Yonathan Dossow wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:12 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 01:57 -0400, Yonathan Dossow wrote:
> > > IMHO, to avoid trademark violations we should use IceWeasel.
> > 
> > Would it make sense to distribute an iceweasel package with a binary
> > inside it called "firefox"?
> 
> i'm not sure(i dont use debian) but i think that the debian's iceweasel
> package contains a binary called iceweasel.
> 
In Debian Etch, /usr/bin/iceweasel and /usr/bin/firefox are links to
/usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel.sh a script that calls the binary
firefox-bin. Devious or what?

John
-- 
I wish I was young enough to know everything.
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