On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Brandon Lozza wrote: >> >> >> GNU Icecat doesn't tell you something? >> > > You said you are going to ask FSF. How about you just ask them if the > presence of a trademark is enough to call software non-free and come back. > Icecat was forked for other reasons (ie) for plugins. > > Rahul > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > If the owner of the trademark doesn't grant a license that is compatible with a free software license, then the software is non free. Linus doesn't go around telling people they can't redistribute a modified linux kernel. His only restriction on the linux trademark is that it is used to label things that use the linux kernel. Mozilla specifically forbids redistributing modified binaries which violates freedom #3 (the 4th freedom) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
