Subject: Re: Why is Firefox "Bon Echo"?
To: Evaldo Gardenali <evaldo@gardenali.biz>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Wienck <awienck@solnet.ch>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/26/2007 08:23:19
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Salut,

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:35:31 -0300, "Evaldo Gardenali"
<evaldo@gardenali.biz> wrote:
> "Our code is free, but we do strictly enforce our trademark rights, we mu=
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> in order to keep them valid. Our trademarks include, among others, the na=
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> Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Bugzilla and XUL, as well as the Mozilla=20
> logo, Firefox logo, Thunderbird logo and the red lizard logo. This means=
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> that, while you have considerable freedom to redistribute and modify our=
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> software, there are tight restrictions on your ability to use the Mozilla=
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> name and logos, even when built into binaries that we provide."=20
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/licensing.html

The bad thing about trademark law is that it really states this. If you
don't defend your trademark against _anyone_ who uses it, you lose your
right to it (so IE8 could be named Firefox).

The problem with this is that some web applications really check for
the name =ABFirefox=BB and thus refuse to work under Debian. Under NetBSD
you at least have the chance to make an official build. But it's evil
enough, and even though it is the only way the Mozilla Foundation has,
it doesn't really feel right to the users who can't use their Debian
package because otherwise Scalix Webmail won't let them log in.

(The reason being of course: =ABWe cannot support any browser we didn't
certify. And your source build isn't Firefox.=BB)

aw
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