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| mbaehrlxer Nov 27, 2006 8:02 PM EDT |
there is nothing new in this article. what it describes has been known for weeks, if not months, and it misses the important point: the trademark itself is not the issue. the issue is that the mozilla trademark is made up of elements which have a copyright that does not allow changing it: the image which contains the logo may not be changed, which goes against the debian rule that everything must be changeable. that is the real problem. if mozilla would say that the image containing the logo may be reused for other purposes (only it would not be part of the trademark anymore), (like you can do with any other material contained in debian) then debian would have no problem to comply with the trademark and still include firefox without renaming it. greetings, eMBee. |
| rijelkentaurus Nov 28, 2006 5:34 AM EDT |
Nobody makes a big deal out of Linspire having to change the names of their apps, since they make changes that Mozilla doesn't want associated with them. I think Linspire has LMail and LBrowser, or something like that. This is just an attempt to create news where there really isn't news, IMO. |
| mbaehrlxer Nov 30, 2006 6:36 PM EDT |
hmm, debian does not make any such changes (so far), debians only crime at this point is not to include that image. all other changes are backports of patches and things needed for firefox to even build within the debian infrastructure. linspire presumably did not even try to advertise their changed browser as firefox... greetings, eMBee. |
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