Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Trademark licenses, example in Firefox

2011-07-22 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Jason Self wrote: Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote .. I think so. If you put Firefox with branding on a Trisquel CD then you (or anyone else) can't sell that CD, as I understand it. Not being able to charge money for unmodified binaries does seem to conflict with that with what the

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Trademark licenses, example in Firefox

2011-07-22 Thread Leo
On Friday 22 July 2011 10:00:00 Diego Saravia wrote: 2011/7/22 Leo l...@kde.org.ar: On Thursday 21 July 2011 18:34:33 Diego Saravia wrote: we need new, independient projects, a new free kernel, a new free browser, with free true sources, and a comunity involved in free software

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Trademark licenses, example in Firefox

2011-07-22 Thread Leo
On Friday 22 July 2011 14:37:03 Diego Saravia wrote: source of linux libre is linux, and is not free source of icecat is firefox and we are seeing that is not free Source of Linux-libre is Linux-libre, completely free: http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Trademark licenses, example in Firefox

2011-07-22 Thread Jason Self
What? Is is absolutely source code. In a way, they are forks from upstream. They address the problematic areas of the upstream software that concern the free software community that upstream doesn't want to address. GNU Icecat, for example, can be used without ever thinking about Mozilla's

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Trademark licenses, example in Firefox

2011-07-22 Thread Diego Saravia
2011/7/22 Jason Self ja...@bluehome.net What? Is is absolutely source code. Source is the point of origin of something Its not the same as upstream. cd .. takes you upstream. cd / takes you to the root. its not the same as compilable code In software, is what PEOPLE create by its minds.

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Trademark licenses, example in Firefox

2011-07-22 Thread Rubén Rodríguez
you can't fix it and distribute your fix which is where the real problem lies No, the problem I'd like to discuss is the fact that if you don't modify the package first (removing the trademark), you can't distribute it in all the ways the software license allows you to.