Firefox trademark shenanigans (Re: Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?)

Mark Rosenstand mark at borkware.net
Fri Oct 13 14:15:13 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:11 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> >> I can agree with that. However, it is my understanding that what truly
> >> makes up the software, the code, is still "free".
> > 
> > It's not; you cannot modify it.
> 
> Of course you can. Nobody would be able to fork it if it wasnt Free 
> software. The mozilla codebase is trilicensed under GPL/LGPL/MPL where 
> all there of them are Free software licenses. The current issues are 
> related to trademarks and not copyright licenses.

Not if you want to use the Firefox name. (Yeah, I agree it's stupid, but
I also understand aillon's explanation - still, it's not free.)




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