On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -Dan
