-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ===Begin resolution text=== > The Debian Project has been watching the case around the Mozilla > Project's EULA requirement for people wishing to use their trademarks > from a distance. This is an issue that has been brewing for a few years > now; and even though we've chosen not to use the Firefox, Thunderbird, > Mozilla, and Seamonkey trademarks, we still feel that we ought to make > our position on this important issue clear. > > The Free Software community as a whole is based around the notion that > one should be allowed to modify software when they feel it necessary; > and that the right to such modification and subsequent redistribution is > a basic right to users that should not be taken away. > > The tendency that is apparent in the Mozilla Corporation, which is to > use trademark law to enforce certain requirements which we would not > usually consider to be characteristic of Free Software, is something > that the Debian Project finds disturbing. Free Software is about > Freedom; and whether that freedom is restricted through copyright law or > trademarks really is of no concern. > ===End resolution text=== > > Basically, only the final paragraph changes. > > If my seconders can agree with this edited version, I'll retract my > original version.
I agree and second the edited version, for similar reasons to before. - -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI13jImUY5euFC5vQRAjuwAKCmrHY7CDcsaA2OPkwH6aQEOqzU9gCgrqQv BPhScMgW+oNWxheH/sz5vrI= =mRjO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]