On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:01:42PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:26:55PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> >> Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> 
> >> > We consider the former to be DFSG-free and the latter to be non-free
> >> > (and require explicit permission to do the latter from the copyright
> >> > holder). That's all there is to it. I can't imagine why Mozilla would
> >> > want to forbid this, other than a total lack of comprehension of the
> >> > difference between trademarks and copyrights.
> >> 
> >> I can -- they're currently very concerned about unstable or poorly
> >> modified code being shipped as "Firefox" or "Mozilla" branded
> >> software.
> >> 
> >> Debian *will* modify the Mozilla or Firefox products slightly to ship
> >> them -- introducing better FHS compliance, for example, and probably
> >> a few other things:  Different bookmarks, different home page, maybe
> >> different text in some places and maybe different code.  These may
> >> impact the stability or user experience of the product, so they're
> >> concerned about us using their protected marks.
> >> 
> >> As a consequence of the above, even if we did have a copyright license
> >> to modify the icon or the bitmap of the text "Firefox", we wouldn't
> >> have a trademark license to use the word 'Firefox' to describe our
> >> modified product.
> >
> > Did you even read what I wrote? Why does it help to prohibit me from
> > taking the firefox logo, replacing the fox part with a cow, and using
> > it as the logo for something else entirely? How could this possibly be
> > relevant?
> 
> I did, but this last reply makes no sense to me.  I mean, you're right
> logo, there is no reason to prevent doing that.  But I don't
> understand why you're saying that.

My entire mail was about the difference between trademarks and
copyrights, and how copyrights prohibited this case (and must not, for
it to be DFSG-free), while trademarks do not. I discussed no other
points.

For the trademark issue itself, we dealt with that several days ago.

-- 
  .''`.  ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield
 : :' :  http://www.debian.org/ |
 `. `'                          |
   `-             -><-          |

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

Reply via email to