* Gervase Markham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > >* Simon Huggins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>I was under the impression that downstreams could call the packages > >>firefox as they had been blessed with official Debian penguin pee as > >>long as they didn't then change them and it was only when they were > >>modified that they potentially had to go to the Mozilla Foundation for a > >>license. > > > >That is correct, but (correct me if I'm wrong Gerv), but "change" > >would include such things as recompiling it. > > As I was saying earlier in the thread, what we'd probably do is say that > they could make changes within the terms of the trademark policy - > possibly the Community Edition rules, which allow for recompilation and > limited change. We can certainly discuss the extent of such rights; what > we can't agree to is giving them unlimited rights, or even rights as > extensive as Debian's or Red Hat's or another trusted distributor's > without them proving themselves worthy of such trust.
Ok, that's interesting. It's somewhat more permissive than I had assumed. I'm not sure it really changes anything from our perspective though. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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