Firefox trademark shenanigans (Re: Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?)
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Sep 28 18:05:27 UTC 2006
Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> It is true for Firefox. I was not speaking for trademarks on names in
> general. In the words of MozCo
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622):
>
> "If you are going to use the Firefox name, you must also use the rest of
> the
> branding."
>
> We can't use the rest of the branding, because it's non-free.
>
So is the Debian and Fedora's branding. The branding is part of the
trademarks. It cannot be free or it becomes diluted and you lose the
trademark. Strict enforcement is *required by law*.
Rahul
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