Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

[Gnu/Linux Technology]

[Out of subject]

Another way to explore for easy use for new user could be to propose in 
Ubuntu a vitamined Firefox like what did Mepis in old 2004 version.
I think, if possible, to propose a full plugged Firefox, ready to use 
out of the fox with by examples flash an java enabled, mplayer-nogui and 
all what needed to browse the web.
In Open SuSE the user have just to accept the licence to install them.

I do not know how it stays with the GPL, but often the newbie is lost in 
front of installing his plugins.

Travis Watkins a écrit :
> On 9/26/06, Eldo Varghese <poningru at ufl.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Now this stuff they probably would care about, but why not gave through
>> the approval process?
>> - Eldo
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Alright, so then Ubuntu can distribute Firefox and call it Firefox. If
> I make an Ubuntu derivitive (say like MEPIS) and include further
> changes to Firefox, I can no longer legally call it Firefox. This hits
> at least two things in the DFSG so Debian won't do it. I hope Ubuntu
> follows Debian in this one.
>
> DFSG #3: "The license must allow modifications and derived works, and
> must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license
> of the original software."
>
> DFSG #8: "The rights attached to the program must not depend on the
> program's being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted
> from Debian and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise
> within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the
> program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are
> granted in conjunction with the Debian system."
>
>