On 05/10/2013 05:44 PM, Jason Self wrote: > > One aspect of being a free program is being able to distribute verbatim > > copies (as you received it) commercially, under freedom 2. I cannot go to > > http://www.mozilla.org/ and download Firefox (or Thunderbird for that matter) > > and do that.
Ivan Zaigralin <[email protected]> wrote .. > On the contrary: https://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/faq.html > > > If you are redistributing unchanged official stable binaries downloaded from > > mozilla.org, to anyone in any way and for any purpose, no further > > permissions are required from us. That's not the entire thing. Indeed no "further permission" is needed because they've already provided it in their trademark policy [0]. The terms of said policy are what cause this problem: "If you want to distribute the unchanged official binaries using the Mozilla Marks, you may do so, without receiving any further permission from Mozilla, as long as you comply with this Trademark Policy *and you distribute them without charge.*" (The added emphasis is mine.) So, my original statement still stands: > One aspect of being a free program is being able to distribute verbatim > copies (as you received it) commercially, under freedom 2. I cannot go to > http://www.mozilla.org/ and download Firefox (or Thunderbird for that matter) > and do that. At least, not without running afoul of their trademark policy and opening myself up to potential problems. Hence, freedom #2 is limited to non-commercial distribution only, which runs afoul of the FSF's free software definition [1]. [0] http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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