Hi Benjamin, Thanks for your reply.
Are you sure it does not use "FireFox"? :) :) Did you check the site? You'll find a lot of "FireFox" words related to this ActiveX Control, not to FireFox borwser. Also it uses "Mozilla" :) Thanks for pointing out that I could use this Control. No, I can not use it because it is broken at its present version (I mean sources), it's abandoned and not updated for many versions and finally it is intended for Windows only, while I need a cross-platform solution (read XPCom-based). XULRunner as far as I understand is supposed to run application(s), while I need Gecko API exposed. There are no plans on creating plugins or extensions or XUL applications. We'd need Gecko available through an API, just similar to referenced ActiveX Control. > If you just use the code without the > Mozilla-owned trademarks (Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla *), you can do > pretty much anything you want. Well, it's pretty clear that I can not create my own distro and call it FireFox or Mozilla and it's not what I'm discussing there. That control is not called Mozilla or FireFox, btw. It's called Mozilla Control. What if I call my distro Embedded Mozilla Browser? I think with this approach there would be no collisions or misinterprettings or abuses. -jv "Benjamin Smedberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Vlad J. wrote: > > Axel, > > > > Thanks for the explanation, but I'd love to get an idea if this > > http://www.iol.ie/%7Elocka/mozilla/mozilla.htm falls into legal conditions > > or not. > > Indeed, no one can ever create ActiveX from Mozilla sources with all the > > default compiler switches, hence they are merely changed. All the sources > > remain the same. > > Adam Lock compiled all the stuff, wrapped up into installer (he created his > > own installation script) and looks like everything is legal. > > Any comments? > > That code does not use the Firefox trademark, and therefore this whole > discussion about trademark licensing is moot. I'm pretty sure that you can > compile the ActiveX control against XULRunner and use it just fine, without > any mention of Firefox at all. > > The important point here is that if you use "firefox" branding anywhere, you > need to get a trademark license. If you just use the code without the > Mozilla-owned trademarks (Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla *), you can do > pretty much anything you want. > > --BDS > _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
