** Sebastian Ley :: > Am Dienstag, 14. Juni 2005 16:20 schrieb Humberto Massa Guimarăes: > > > > Does calling it "firefox" or "thunderbird" hurt "free software"? > > > > At first, no. But it *does* hurt our users. Why? Because they are > > confident that getting something from the Debian mirror, modifying > > it and re-distributing under the same terms is allowed. And they can > > be burned after some time. And they *will* blame it on Debian. > > Modifying and redistributing stuff from the Debian archive > does not release > you from checking redistribution licenses. Just make > sure /usr/share/doc/$MOZILLA-PRODUCT/copyright clarifies the > trademark issue, > and let's justify the inclusion with §4 of the DFSG.
As I said before, IMHO "our priorities are Free Software and our users" and not "... and our *direct* users"... -- HTH, Massa