Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-10-02 Thread Conrad Knauer
On 10/1/06, Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition-policy.html One of the permitted changes is Porting the software to different operating systems I'm not sure that's what that clause really means, but one easy example is

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Connor
On 2-Oct-06, at 2:02 AM, Conrad Knauer wrote: On 10/1/06, Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition- policy.html One of the permitted changes is Porting the software to different operating systems I'm not sure that's what that

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-10-02 Thread Eric Dorland
* Conrad Knauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 10/1/06, Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition-policy.html One of the permitted changes is Porting the software to different operating systems I'm not sure that's what that

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-10-02 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 2-Oct-06, at 2:02 AM, Conrad Knauer wrote: On 10/1/06, Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition- policy.html One of the permitted changes is Porting the software to different

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Connor
To my knowledge, Debian isn't including extra security fixes over and above what we're shipping. If they are, that would possibly be considered an act of bad faith between downstream and upstream, unless the security bug was Debian specific. This type of potential Firefox from foo is better

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:46:10PM -0400, Mike Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my knowledge, Debian isn't including extra security fixes over and above what we're shipping. If they are, that would possibly be considered an act of bad faith between downstream and upstream, unless the

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-10-02 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To my knowledge, Debian isn't including extra security fixes over and above what we're shipping. If they are, that would possibly be considered an act of bad faith between downstream and upstream, unless the security bug was Debian specific. This

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Connor
On 2-Oct-06, at 1:39 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: Backporting security fixes from newer releases is not really extra in my mind. It'd be fixing stuff that isn't fixed elsewhere without discussing it with us. The argument for fixing upstream is that by taking a fix for a bug that's unpatched

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-10-01 Thread Eric Dorland
* Conrad Knauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: Some changes applied to the debian packages don't fall in the community edition authorized changes, and there's no way we want not to apply these. If you're referring to the list of permitted changes in Community Editions on

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-28 Thread Conrad Knauer
Mike Hommey wrote: Some changes applied to the debian packages don't fall in the community edition authorized changes, and there's no way we want not to apply these. If you're referring to the list of permitted changes in Community Editions on

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-27 Thread Conrad Knauer
Steve Langasek wrote: it seems that ultimately, the only acceptable solution to Debian would unfortunately be to stop using the firefox name altogether. So I'm hoping we can find a middle ground somewhere. As I understand it, the problem is that Mozilla wants Debian to stop calling it Firefox

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:58:56AM -0600, Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: it seems that ultimately, the only acceptable solution to Debian would unfortunately be to stop using the firefox name altogether. So I'm hoping we can find a middle ground somewhere. As

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-26 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 21-Sep-06, at 1:38 AM, Eric Dorland wrote: If this isn't possible, could we at least get a stay of execution? Etch is going into deep freeze in less than a month. Would it be possible to resolve this after the release? I would think it makes

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-21 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just to sum everything up, since some of this is getting circular, this is how we have been dealing with Linux distros. Ultimately, fair is fair, and unless you think Debian should get a special deal (which I don't think is DFSG-friendly, let alone

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-21 Thread Mike Connor
On 21-Sep-06, at 1:51 AM, Eric Dorland wrote: The other issue is if we can still distribute the firefox packages we already have in sarge. If etch releases as scheduled we will still be backporting security fixes into that version until Dec. 2007 (or as long as it is remains possible). Etch

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-21 Thread Mike Connor
On 21-Sep-06, at 1:38 AM, Eric Dorland wrote: If this isn't possible, could we at least get a stay of execution? Etch is going into deep freeze in less than a month. Would it be possible to resolve this after the release? I would think it makes much more sense to resolve this before you put

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-20 Thread Mike Connor
Eric Dorland wrote: Please see Gerv's comments here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00757.html to see where he agreed we did not have to use the logo. Fair enough, he did make that statement. At the time, we obviously weren't taking that part seriously. We are now, and

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-20 Thread Mike Connor
Just to sum everything up, since some of this is getting circular, this is how we have been dealing with Linux distros. Ultimately, fair is fair, and unless you think Debian should get a special deal (which I don't think is DFSG-friendly, let alone likely to happen) , these are the conditions

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 354622 serious quit On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:55:55AM -0400, Mike Connor wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: I've confirmed that this isn't acceptable usage of the trademark. If you are going to use the Firefox name, you must also use the rest of the branding. If Eric's statement that

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-20 Thread Mike Connor
James Andrewartha wrote: As for your straw man about security bugs, what security bugs would you be fixing with your own patches? If there are security bugs, they should be fixed upstream, not in your own tree. We've had this discussion repeatedly in the context of the security group, and we

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-20 Thread James Andrewartha
As for your straw man about security bugs, what security bugs would you be fixing with your own patches? If there are security bugs, they should be fixed upstream, not in your own tree. We've had this discussion repeatedly in the context of the security group, and we expect that branded

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-20 Thread Mike Connor
Steve Langasek wrote: Are the Debian logos and trademarks free? No, the Debian logos are not free. This is considered a bug. Since there's no way of making the logo free without losing control over the mark, why not adopt a generic branding switch like we did? Its non-trivial to

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-20 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eric Dorland wrote: Please see Gerv's comments here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00757.html to see where he agreed we did not have to use the logo. Fair enough, he did make that statement. At the time, we obviously weren't

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-19 Thread Eric Dorland
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Mike, On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:27:51PM -0400, Mike Connor wrote: Sorry for dropping this a while back, we didn't have enough bandwidth to track this down... Understood; seems to be a common enough problem. :) The key problem is that

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-19 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sorry for dropping this a while back, we didn't have enough bandwidth to track this down... Eric Dorland wrote: To my knowledge, each patchset that deviates from what we ship should be run by whoever is doing licensing approvals (this is in

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Connor
On 18-Sep-06, at 5:20 PM, Eric Dorland wrote: This is us attempting to tell you that what you are doing is not correct and needs to change. We also need to go over the rest of the patchset, but this is the most glaring issue that must be fixed. This came back up again when people

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-19 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 18-Sep-06, at 5:20 PM, Eric Dorland wrote: This is us attempting to tell you that what you are doing is not correct and needs to change. We also need to go over the rest of the patchset, but this is the most glaring issue that must be fixed.

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-18 Thread Mike Connor
Sorry for dropping this a while back, we didn't have enough bandwidth to track this down... Eric Dorland wrote: To my knowledge, each patchset that deviates from what we ship should be run by whoever is doing licensing approvals (this is in progress with various distributions already). Its

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Mike, On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:27:51PM -0400, Mike Connor wrote: Sorry for dropping this a while back, we didn't have enough bandwidth to track this down... Understood; seems to be a common enough problem. :) The key problem is that there is code, and a build switch, that explicitly

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-09-18 Thread Mike Connor
Steve Langasek wrote: I've confirmed that this isn't acceptable usage of the trademark. If you are going to use the Firefox name, you must also use the rest of the branding. If Eric's statement that the firefox logos are distributed under a non-free copyright license remains accurate,

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-03-05 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eric Dorland wrote: severity 354622 important thanks * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Mike, On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:01:01PM -0500, Mike Connor wrote: Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2 Severity: serious

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-03-04 Thread Eric Dorland
severity 354622 important thanks * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Mike, On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:01:01PM -0500, Mike Connor wrote: Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2 Severity: serious Firefox (the name) is equally protected and controlled by the same

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-03-04 Thread Mike Connor
Eric Dorland wrote: severity 354622 important thanks * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Mike, On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:01:01PM -0500, Mike Connor wrote: Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2 Severity: serious Firefox (the name) is equally protected and

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Mike, On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:01:01PM -0500, Mike Connor wrote: Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2 Severity: serious Firefox (the name) is equally protected and controlled by the same trademark policy and legal requirements as the Firefox logo. You're free to use any

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding is still a trademark violation

2006-02-27 Thread Mike Connor
Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2 Severity: serious Firefox (the name) is equally protected and controlled by the same trademark policy and legal requirements as the Firefox logo. You're free to use any other name for the browser bits, but calling the browser Firefox requires the