Fedora Remix and Adblock extension

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 30 20:49:49 UTC 2009


On 12/01/2009 02:08 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
>> The trademark guidelines from Mozilla seems to restrict it.
>>
>> http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html
>>
>> "In addition, if you are distributing Mozilla binaries yourself, and
>> wish to use the Mozilla Mark(s), you may not (a) disable, modify or
>> otherwise interfere with any installation mechanism contained in a
>> Mozilla product; (b) use any such installation mechanism to install any
>> plug-ins, themes, extensions, software, or items other than the Mozilla
>> product"
> 
> Actually, my reading is that "any such installation mechanism" refers
> to the mechanisms contained in the mozilla product. Given that the
> installation mechanism here is ISOs and RPMs, that would not count.
> 
> But of course, as stated earlier in this thread, WANL, and talk to
> Mozilla.

Consider:

"If you want to ship extensions, themes or plug-ins installed by default
or as part of the same installation process as the Mozilla products (as
opposed to, say, linked as XPIs from the default start page), and you
plan on distributing them under any Mozilla Marks, you must first seek
approval from us."

That seems clear enough to me. I have written to them but meanwhile want
to hear from others about this restriction.

Rahul




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