On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Brandon Lozza <brandon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. So? > That's not free. It is, as you are _free_ to change the name and artwork anytime you want. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
