LWN.net Logo

The death of the community edition?

The death of the community edition?

Posted Oct 2, 2006 0:23 UTC (Mon) by anonymous21 (guest, #30106)
Parent article: The return of Iceweasel

Mozilla had drafted a policy whereby you could rename "Mozilla Firefox" to things like "Firefox Community Edition, Debian." Community editions were barred from using the copywritten artwork (as Debian has chosen to do). Dozens of community editions are in different Linux and BSD distros. Many "optimized" or customized builds for Windows and other operating systems were built under this same policy.

Is Mozilla now going to go to each of these individually, as they've done with Debian, and tell them that this is no longer an aspect of their trademark policy? Why don't they come out and say exactly what their current policy is & which policies are no longer active? Then, perhaps, all of those other distributions which aren't allowed to call their slightly modified browser "Mozilla Firefox" could get behind a common new name for it.


(Log in to post comments)

The death of the community edition?

Posted Oct 11, 2006 7:41 UTC (Wed) by slef (subscriber, #14720) [Link]

I used to think that Debian's packaging could conform to the Community Edition policy, but there was some reason why it can't. IIRC Debian is not regarded by MoFo/MozCorp as a "different operating system" so no patches are allowed. (I think the reason is given in the 2005 debian-legal discussion with gerv.)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds