Firefox trademark shenanigans (Re: Any chance of getting Firefox 2.0 into rawhide/FC6?)
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 13 14:18:50 UTC 2006
Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:11 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Mark Rosenstand wrote:
>>>> I can agree with that. However, it is my understanding that what truly
>>>> makes up the software, the code, is still "free".
>>> It's not; you cannot modify it.
>> Of course you can. Nobody would be able to fork it if it wasnt Free
>> software. The mozilla codebase is trilicensed under GPL/LGPL/MPL where
>> all there of them are Free software licenses. The current issues are
>> related to trademarks and not copyright licenses.
>
> Not if you want to use the Firefox name. (Yeah, I agree it's stupid, but
> I also understand aillon's explanation - still, it's not free.)
I suppose you consider all trademarked software including Fedora itself
as not free then.
Rahul
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