On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > that's the entire point of having trademarks. Free software projects are > obliged to allow you to access and modify their code. They are not > obliged to allow you to benefit from their reputation. It doesn't make > any sense to say 'I think this product needs to be modified but I wish > to be able to represent my modified product as being the same thing as > the original product in order to benefit from the reputation attached to > the original product'. > -- Trademarks defeat the purpose of it being "free software". They impose restrictions. You have to remove MoFo's artwork and perform a name change or you're required to get permission from Mozilla to redistribute a modified binary. That's not free. At the same time does that logically effect the produced binary if we don't use the Firefox branding? I don't think the artwork and branding makes it any faster or more standards compliant or compatible with plugins. It would instantly remove the restrictions that make it unmaintainable. > Adam Williamson Looks like RMS agrees too on the trademark issue. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
