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@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. IMHO, to avoid trademark violations we should use IceWeasel. -- Yonathan H. Dossow Acun~a http://kronin.bla.cl Estudiante Ingenieria Civil Informatica Unidad de Servicios de Computacion e Internet Fono: +56 32 2654367 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria Valparaiso, Chile
