[ubuntu-uk] Firefox, iceweasel and Thunderbird

[stude.list+ubuntuuk at googlemail.com]

Hi

I'm sure by now everyone has heard about the issue between Debain and
Mozilla over the use of the name FireFox. It looks like they are going
to go ahead with a switch.

I was just wondering if this is going to affect Thunderbird? Isn't
Thunderbird under trademark the same way FireFox is? The copy of
Thunderbird in Ubuntu has a different icon to the original. So how
come Mozilla aren't objecting to Debian's use of the Thunderbird name,
or can we expect problems over the name Thunderbird as well?

On a tangent, aren't trademarks automatic? How does this affect other
packages, if I produce an application does that mean I can force
distros to rename it, and is the policy on trademark to ignore i till
someone complains?

- Andy