begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:24:57PM -0700: > rbw wrote: > > > > > I haven't had time to figure out why but "Iceweasel" (AKA Freezilla per > > some GPL3 beef) > > It has nothing to do with copyright. The name change has to do with > trademark, one of the other sides of Intellectual Property. > > The Mozilla Foundation won't allow *ANYONE* and that means *anyone* use > the Mozilla (including Firefox) logo, artwork, or name unless they meet > certain criteria. One of these includes allowing Mozilla Foundation to > sign off on any patch applied to the source code.
This is a perfectly reasonable position. > Debian did not find that situation acceptable. That would require the > Debian Security Team to wait until Mozilla Foundation blessed off any > backports of security problems before Debian users could get a patch. I don't know why the Debian Security Team thinks that Debian users need to have problems added in to their software. But hey, what wild and crazy guys those Debian folks are, eh? > Solution: Remove the Mozilla Foundation trademarks and licensed artwork. I wonder what other options were discussed, if any. Presumably, the logo and other artwork could be replaced when there's an unapproved patch, and when Mozilla approves the patch, the normal artwork could go back in. It would make for an interesting user experience... "oh, look, there's the firefox logo today... that only took Mozilla four weeks to approve the security patches, plus-or-minus a week." -- Well, it would amuse *me*. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
