[ubuntu-uk] Firefox, iceweasel and Thunderbird

[gord]

you might want to take a look at this article
( http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/09/1434251 ) to see how
thunderbird escaped the wrath of trademark issues.

"If any of this sounds faintly familiar, it may be because a similar
issue arose prior to the last Debian version release, Sarge, and dates
as far back as 2004. At that time, the dispute centered around the use
of trademarks for Mozilla's Thunderbird. "Eventually an agreement was
struck whereby we could use the name without the logo and it was up to
the Mozilla Foundation to keep an eye on the Debian packages to make
sure they met the level of quality they expected," said Dorland. "Now
the trademark has been moved to the Mozilla Corp. and they feel that
agreement isn't strong enough.""   

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:04 +0100, stude.list+ubuntuuk at googlemail.com
wrote:
> 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
> 
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