Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 04:32:24PM -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?

Ah, so that explains it.

Currently in Edgy, Firefox is already being branded as "Bon Echo", which
AFAIK was taken from Debian.

This bug seems relevant:

"Uses Bon Echo branding, should use Firefox branding"
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/61520

Also, I think the word you meant was "trademarked"; the Firefox name and
logo are both trademarked, but a name cannot be copyrighted.

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