Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

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On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 09:17 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-12-22 at 07:01 -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> > Especially since Fedora's maintainers *already* compile it, including 
> > changing some of the defaults.  What's a couple more?
> 
> AIUI, Mozilla doesn't actually like downstreams changing too much in
> Firefox. I don't know exactly where their 'lines' are, but they are
> known to assert trademark rights against downstreams to prevent them
> changing some things and still calling the result 'Firefox'. (This
> policy is why Debian ships 'Iceweasel' or whatever instead - so they
> can modify it how they like without Mozilla complaining).

Actually, Debian ships Firefox again these days as the policies
apparently have been changed/clarified enough.

https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/

AFAICT, there is still little indication as to what modifications may
be considered "significant functional changes" by Mozilla though.

Benjamin
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