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

[Rahul Sundaram]

Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> It's definitely late for such change to happen in the FC6 timeframe,
> but we have to look further, and if we are to stick to the motto of
> providing a distribution that is "free to infinity," then we can't
> continue to ship Firefox under the name that limits what we can and
> cannot do with the software.
> 

Thats not true. Several projects enforce trademark guidelines. They hold 
restrictions on the name to ensure that their brand isnt spoiled. That 
includes Debian,Fedora and Linux itself. If there is pain in following 
the guidelines, you can rename it (see httpd vs apache in Fedora) but 
the trademark restriction by itself doesnt make the software non-free or 
incompatible with the Fedora objectives.

Rahul