Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On 9/26/06, Hervé Fache <Herve at lucidia.net> wrote:
>
> Put any odd logo vaguely resembling Firefox's, call it something like
> Iceweasel or ThunderFox or FireWolf or WhatEver and forget about it.
>
> Then get back to work on Konqueror/Epiphany so Firefox can be optional
> (how many MB would that save on the LiveCD? I bet it's more than Vim
> ;-)
>
> Hervé.
>
> On 9/25/06, Saad Shakhshir <saads at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > On 9/25/06, James Hall <rio at x5g.com> wrote:
> > > They only seem to be worried about using the Firefox name without the
> > > Firefox logo. Using them both together will satisfy the Mozilla.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The issue lies precisely with use of the logo.  The Firefox logo is not
> free
> > and does not fall under the Debian Free Software Guidelines [1].  Thus
> > Debian does not and will not include the logo in any of its
> releases.  I'm
> > not sure that Ubuntu faces the same dilemma here.
> >
> > -SS-
> >
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Copyright does not apply/protect on a particular idea, but rather how the
idea is being expressed. So if Firefox holds the copyright for expressing a
Fire and Fox on a Globe, a possible way to get out of it is to create
another expression with different objects that does not depicts the same way
as the Firefox expression.



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