Re: Bikeshedding a name for pkgsrc's unbranded Firefox

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> Also, I think we should just leave it as-is and point anyone who
> complains at Mozilla's lawyers.  I'll go as far as to say we shouldn't
> even distribute binary packages for these at all to encourage complaints
> towards Mozilla.

Maybe we should send an open letter to the mozilla foundation, something
like:


 "We understand your trademark usage rules but are considering to
  ignore them, because:

    - your rules do not differentiate between system integration
      changes, changes of default behaviour, and changes needed to
      support other systems not properly integrated by the mozilla
      foundation
    - the net result is only completely confused users
    - you are not providing binaries for many platforms supported
      by us
    - your "demanding" contributor environment and rapid release
      procedures makes it nearly impossible to get into a state
      where official releases build and work out of the box on many
      of our systems
    - changing the previous would require a very significant amount
      of work both on your and our side"

and ask for a waiver to allow us usage of the official branding
despite any patches that are system-integration and support of officially
unsupported platforms only.

Better text welcome, but I guess you get the idea.

Martin