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Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarksDebian and Mozilla - a study in trademarksPosted Jan 10, 2005 20:08 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks by piman Parent article: Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks
Why it's Ok for *TeX (plain TeX, LaTeX and so on have very strict regulations imposed on redistributors)and bad for Firefox ?
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Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks Posted Jan 11, 2005 4:22 UTC (Tue) by goonie (guest, #4252) [Link] IIRC, TeX is treated as a special case by Debian developers, because it's been in Debian since day 1 (almost), and, well, it's by Don Knuth, sooper-genius.
Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks Posted Jan 13, 2005 17:49 UTC (Thu) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123) [Link] While both the Iceweasel and Community Edition options are arguably DFSG-free, they both present policy challenges. Iceweasel is the best option from a freeness perspective, but poses challenges to Debian users, since many inexperienced users may be confused by the name changes. On the other hand, Debian developers may not want to live with the restrictions of the community edition.TeX is different because 1) it has a much smaller user base than Mozilla, so a name change, if one were necessary, would have a smaller impact, and 2) a user who is experienced enough to even know what TeX is can probably handle a hypothetical name change.
Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks Posted Jan 20, 2005 13:33 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link] Also, something tells me TeX won't need any security fixes.. ;-)
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