redirect the firefox and thunderbird packages to the debranded equivalents, as Debian did?
here's a silly thought for rebrands: aircoyote and seachicken?
On Sunday, April 21, 2024 3:57:37 PM UTC Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 11:37:25AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Therefore, I think we should call it
> >
> > TrademarkFox
> >
> > and the mail client
> >
> > TrademarkBird
> >
> > and so on for anything else from Mozilla.
>
> I think any renaming doesn't help unless we call it something very
> strange like
>
> the-browser-we-are-not-allowed-to-call-firefox-due-to-mozilla-lawyers-stupidity
>
> (and I'm not sure if that violates the firefox trademark).
>
> Users will search for "firefox" and "thunderbird", anything renamed will not
> be found easily. So the easiest solution is to do nothing, the second
> best (but likely futile) is to try to get some official mozilla blessing
> and use the real names.
>
> If the official version would require dropping some patches we want for policy
> reasons, we can add a second pkg that just includes the official one but adds
> the controverse patches and drops the branding.
>
> But I have very little hope in this path to work out (and I wouldn't
> volunteer to be the one running against concrete walls).
>
> Martin
>