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

[Rex Dieter]

Mark Rosenstand wrote:

> 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. 

...and if you want to use "unapproved" patches.  The more I ponder this, the
less I like having to live with the limitations of using firefox's official
branding. 

-- Rex