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

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/2/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Arthur Pemberton <pemboa <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> Sorry to jump in here. But from what I've read, it seems that MozCo is
> >> cool with Fedora as things stand.
> >
> > But for how long? I think the patch approval process can also be a constraint
> > on the Fedora Legacy team. Currently, Legacy is simply upgrading rather than
> > backporting, and even working on packaging Seamonkey to replace the
> > discontinued Mozilla Suite for the older distros (that gratuitous name change
> > is also due to Mozilla's trademark policies, by the way),
>
> No, it's not.  Seamonkey's name is rather irrelevant.  It's really a
> different product.  Not maintained by the same people, it's a fork of
> the old project.  See what happened with galeon and epiphany.  Same
> browser, same original author, different name.
>
> Firefox's stringent trademarking policies became born because the
> Mozilla trademark became diluted.  You even see it in Internet
> Explorer's User Agent string.  The Mozilla trademark was long since
> "lost" so to speak.
>

I always wondered how this was even allowed.

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