Am Dienstag, 14. Juni 2005 16:20 schrieb Humberto Massa Guimarăes: > > Does calling it "firefox" or "thunderbird" hurt "free software"? > > At first, no. But it *does* hurt our users. Why? Because they are > confident that getting something from the Debian mirror, modifying > it and re-distributing under the same terms is allowed. And they can > be burned after some time. And they *will* blame it on Debian.
Modifying and redistributing stuff from the Debian archive does not release you from checking redistribution licenses. Just make sure /usr/share/doc/$MOZILLA-PRODUCT/copyright clarifies the trademark issue, and let's justify the inclusion with §4 of the DFSG. Regards, Sebastian -- PGP-Key: http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian.ley/public.key Fingerprint: A46A 753F AEDC 2C01 BE6E F6DB 97E0 3309 9FD6 E3E6