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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