firefox -> iceweasel package is probably not legal
[Posted December 6, 2006 by corbet]
| From: |
| Jeff Carr <basilarchia-AT-gmail.com> |
| To: |
| debian-legal-AT-lists.debian.org, Eric Dorland <eric-AT-debian.org> |
| Subject: |
| firefox -> iceweasel package is probably not legal |
| Date: |
| Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:57:48 -0800 |
I notice that recently you have complied with Mozilla's request to not
use their trademarks for your browser packages. However, you can't
also use their trademark to switch users to a competing product.
("bait-and-switch") The same trademark issues are why there is not a
package called openoffice. It must be called openoffice.org.
For instance, if Best Buy provided a packaged product called "firefox"
that instead had IE or a nearly indistinguishable competing product
(iceweasel) this would also be trademark infringement.
Trying to install firefox should be the same as openoffice:
root@debian:~# apt-get install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package firefox
root@debian:~#
Enjoy,
Jeff