Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at ubuntu.com
Sun Sep 24 21:42:32 BST 2006


On Sun, 2006-24-09 at 16:32 -0400, Saad Shakhshir wrote:
> There's been a thorough discussion of the legality of shipping
> re-branded versions of Firefox in Debian [1].  Apparently Firefox's
> code is free, but the logo and name are copyrighted and are required
> to be used together.  It appears that the resolution will be for
> Debian to change Firefox's name in Etch.  Will Ubuntu be doing the
> same? 
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622

I suspect any decision about Ubuntu's Firefox fate will be described in
the related bug report:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/61520


Daniel





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