Fedora 7 Test 4 GNOME based i386 Live CD report

[Rahul Sundaram]

John Morris wrote:

> Seems like as good a time as any for a good rant.....
> 
> How about Firefox being trademark encumbered and therefore illegal to
> redistribute without a special license?   RedHat has signed such a
> license so can redistribute their modified version in RHEL; but the
> Fedora Foundation had damned well better not be signing any such thing
> while prancing about tossing packages out far less serious deviations
> from purity.  (openmotif for example.  I'm not arguing for patented
> codecs and closed drivers.)

Firefox is not illegal to distribute without a special license. That 
claim is completely wrong. If you modify Firefox and need to retain the 
name you need permission or you need to distribute it with a different 
nam which is the very similar to Fedora on the whole. Your comparison 
between Firefox and Openmotif shows some all too common confusion 
between trademark and copyright.

I would recommend watching 
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/007may05/features/ip/

Fedora Foundation does not exist btw. See 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundation. Next time you go on ranting it 
would better to do some basic fact checking first.

Rahul