On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 11:13:05AM +0000, Jeremy Morton wrote: > I know Firefox was rebranded IceWeasel because of the problems with > the Mozilla trademark for Firefox, but as far as I know there is no > such trademark for SeaMonkey and if there is, it's not owned by > Mozilla, it's owned by the SeaMonkey project. Why, then, is it > rebranded to IceApe? Can't Debian just distribute it as SeaMonkey? > Distributing it as IceApe makes it tricky to figure out how > extension compatibility works between SeaMonkey and IceApe, and it's > hard to support IceApe considering you could probably count the > number of IceApe users on the fingers of one hand.
Hey there Jez, According to http://www.seamonkey-project.org/legal/trademark, it's subject to Mozilla's trademark terms (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/) which state: If you want to sell the product, you may do so, but you must call that product by another name—one unrelated to Mozilla or any of the Mozilla Marks (Among a few others, originally, we had an issue with distributing patched software) But, it's pretty explicit this is a Mozilla mark http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/licensing/ even says: Our trademarks include, among others, the names Mozilla®, mozilla.org®, Firefox®, Thunderbird®, Bugzilla™, Camino®, Sunbird®, SeaMonkey®, and XUL™ [..] Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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