Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

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On Sat, 2017-12-23 at 04:36 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> On Friday, December 22, 2017, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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).
> > --
> Same for fedora - if you want to use the trademark.

Well yes, that's exactly the point I was making - there was a
suggestion to make downstream changes to some upstream defaults as part
of a response to this, I was saying we don't have an entirely free hand
to do that.
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