Unclear Firefox situation

Marcin Król hawk at limanowa.net
Wed Sep 19 21:42:06 CEST 2007


> Older versions of Firefox used "Bon Echo" branding which is permitted
> to all parties. Now it seems official branding is back. Any particular
> reason? Are we allowed to do that? We can use "community edition"
> instead of "Bon Echo" but I doubt we are allowed to ship it as
> "Firefox."

I didn't used 2.0.0.7 yet but 2.0.0.6 was BonEcho on both Ac and Th.
Quick look at changelog says that it still should be BonEcho or I missed
something. Anyway, problem is more complex. We can't use branding for
Thunderbird and SeaMonkey as well. Last one is problematic as it doesn't
matter if you do official build or not, its always branded. Maybe we
should use Debian patches and change software names, logos etc to
Iceweasel, Iceape and Icedove? Does Debian allows use of these patches
in other distros? I have it in my looong todo but with low priority.

BTW: if I remember correctly license also disallows use of terms
"mozilla firefox" and "mozilla thunderbird" anywhere in package
including executable file names.

M.


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