-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/2014 01:26 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On 06/06/2014 01:18 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 12:33 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >>> It might run afoul of the Firefox trademark thing. A rebranded >>> "IceWeasle GNOME" loses all the brand recognition. > >> I know we are not allowed to apply unauthorized patches. I didn't >> realize extensions might also be impermissible. If so, that >> would be a strong argument against Firefox. > > We should invoke the lawyers here, but I doubt that this would be > impermissible. I suspect that Firefox implicitly allows this simply > by offering a public extension interface and a freely-available > mechanism to apply them. > > It was pointed out to me off-list that Mozilla does in fact have trademark restrictions on shipping plugins, extensions and themes by default: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ contains the following phrasing: "If you want to ship extensions, themes or plug-ins installed by default or as part of the same installation process as the Mozilla products (as opposed to, say, linked as XPIs from the default start page), and you plan on distributing them under any Mozilla Marks, you must first seek approval from us. What we find acceptable will depend on the effect of the extensions, themes and plug-ins on the Mozilla product. To give examples, changing the theme of one product to another, equally high-quality and aesthetically pleasing theme would be considered. A combination of ten different extensions with three toolbars and seven context menu items probably wouldn't be." So we might be able to ship with these extensions, but we would need Mozilla's approval first. Seriously, it's like they're going out of their way to discourage us from using their product. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlOSCJ4ACgkQeiVVYja6o6N5XgCfQE2hDHusxI5e2I3tBiPCqhUL 9iwAoKI3rPXGxF9XxK06+HMcm/rCM3gi =AVgg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
