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

Evandro Fernandes Giovanini efgiovanini at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 23:43:00 UTC 2006


Em Sáb, 2006-10-14 às 03:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram escreveu:
> Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
> 
> > Mozilla doesn't have to make the Firefox logo non-free to protect its
> > trademark. I know the Debian people even suggested this to Mozilla, but
> > they refused to relicense it anyway.
> >
> 
> I am really curious to know how a completely free to modify logo can be 
> protected by trademarks.
> 

It's definitely possible. For example, according to [1], the
redhat-artwork package is under the GPL. That doesn't mean it's not
protected by trademarks.

Also, see the comments from Larry Rosen on [2]. I think they make the
issue quite clear.

Cheers,
Evandro

1.
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/enterprise/updates/4WS/redhat-artwork-0.120.1-1.2E.src.html
2. http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/09/1434251&tid=41




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