Trademarks and their limits

Posted Feb 6, 2013 17:47 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
Parent article: Trademarks and their limits

I think it should be clarified that:
1) Debian users are unlikely to be confused: iceweasel includes a script /usr/bin/firefox

2) the foremost reason Debian renamed firefox is that the trademark license required the package to contains non-free logos. So in a way, no trademarked version of firefox is free software.

Trademarks and their limits

Posted Feb 6, 2013 17:54 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

"Non-free" may be unclear here. You're free to modify and distribute modified versions, providing that in doing so you don't infringe upon Mozilla's trademarks - and one of the conditions of the trademark license is that the trademarks only be applied to builds from approved source code.

Trademarks and their limits

Posted Feb 6, 2013 22:10 UTC (Wed) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link] (1 responses)

A long time ago, it was the case that the Firefox logo files were non-free in a copyright sense, but it is no longer true, and has not been for some years.

Gerv

Trademarks and their limits

Posted Feb 7, 2013 10:52 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

Maybe, but now, if someone were to rename iceweasel executable to firefox, or the desktop files, I would probably be lost for some time.