On 21 July 2013 15:17, Glenn McIntosh <[email protected]> wrote:
> The issue in the Debian branding of Firefox and Thunderbird was not > fundamentally the trademark. It was the use of a non-DFSG licence on the > logo, which Debian could not use. Mozilla decided that if the logo was not > used, then it was not okay to call the software 'Firefox'. I think a better > resolution would have been for Mozilla to provide an alternative logo that > could have been freely licenced, especially since the logo would still > carry trademark protections against misuse. But the issue was not resolved, > so Debian was forced to change the name. This did not stop it distributing > the Mozilla software, even though it no longer was even able to use the > trademark. > Are you sure of that? The following email says it had nothing to do with the logo, and says it is was trademark issue. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/06/msg00005.html -- Brian May <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
