On 9/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hervé Fache</b> <<a href="mailto:Herve@lucidia.net">Herve@lucidia.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Put any odd logo vaguely resembling Firefox's, call it something like<br>Iceweasel or ThunderFox or FireWolf or WhatEver and forget about it.<br><br>Then get back to work on Konqueror/Epiphany so Firefox can be optional<br>
(how many MB would that save on the LiveCD? I bet it's more than Vim<br>;-)<br><br>Hervé.<br><br>On 9/25/06, Saad Shakhshir <<a href="mailto:saads@alum.mit.edu">saads@alum.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> On 9/25/06, James Hall <
<a href="mailto:rio@x5g.com">rio@x5g.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > They only seem to be worried about using the Firefox name without the<br>> > Firefox logo. Using them both together will satisfy the Mozilla.<br>> >
<br>> ><br>><br>> The issue lies precisely with use of the logo. The Firefox logo is not free<br>> and does not fall under the Debian Free Software Guidelines [1]. Thus<br>> Debian does not and will not include the logo in any of its releases. I'm
<br>> not sure that Ubuntu faces the same dilemma here.<br>><br>> -SS-<br>><br>><br>> --<br>> ubuntu-devel mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
</a><br>> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a><br>><br>><br>><br>--<br>ubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">
ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a><br></blockquote></div><br>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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