blog entry: "The Name ???Firefox??? Not Allowed In Ubuntu?"

[Marius Bock]

Actually it was once called firebird before and then was changed to firefox
due to the fact that firebird db existed.

On 10/4/06, Rolf Kutz <kutz at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
> * Quoting Jeff Waugh (jdub at perkypants.org):
>
> > <quote who="Conrad Knauer">
> >
> > > If Debian called it "Firefox - Debian Community Edition" or some such
> > > ("Firefox DCE"? witha  corresponding "Firefox UCE" for us? :) would
> that
> > > satisfy Mozilla's desire to maintain its trademark?  Hmm... I'll try
> to
> > > add that to the bug report :-)
> >
> > "Firefox" is the trademark. "Firefox - Super Porn Spyware Edition"
> wouldn't
>
> IIRC "Mozilla Firefox" was the name of the
> web-browser, since there has been a firefox
> database software before mozilla changed the
> name.
>
> > satisfy Mozilla's licensing terms, nor their desires for the trademark.
>
> That's another question.
>
> - Rolf
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