Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?
James Hall
rio at x5g.com
Mon Sep 25 20:02:23 BST 2006
They only seem to be worried about using the Firefox name without the
Firefox logo. Using them both together will satisfy the Mozilla.
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 08:00 -0300, Hervé Fache wrote:
> Seems quite simple to me: their stuff is Firefox. If you modify it,
> it's not their stuff anymore and you must call it something else. You
> can send them patches, and they might accept them, but they ultimately
> remain the ones in full control of their product.
>
> This way, Firerfox' problems are their problems, and what Ubuntu could
> make fail with a dodgy patch is _not_ Firefox, and thus Ubuntu cannot
> ruin Mozilla's reputation with dodgy patches.
>
> Makes sense to me. What if someone could create a data-eating,
> hard-disk killing distribuition and call it Ubuntu? What consequences
> for us?
>
> Regards,
> Hervé.
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