On Le Tuesday 05 December 2006, à 23:07:23, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:57:48PM -0800, Jeff Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I notice that recently you have complied with Mozilla's request to not > > use their trademarks for your browser packages. However, you can't > > also use their trademark to switch users to a competing product. > > ("bait-and-switch") The same trademark issues are why there is not a > > package called openoffice. It must be called openoffice.org. > > > > For instance, if Best Buy provided a packaged product called "firefox" > > that instead had IE or a nearly indistinguishable competing product > > (iceweasel) this would also be trademark infringement. > > It would be infringment if the product was packaged as firefox. In our > case, the product is iceweasel, we're just hinting people on it.
I know it's off topic but why not ship a firefox package which only Recommends iceweasel and display a great debconf advertisement for firefox being *replaced* (or quite) by iceweasel ? It give hint to user, whithout (if I understand it well) the legal problems about shipping iceweasel as if it were firefox. IANADD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]