Hrrmpf. It seems like this goes against OpenBSD philosophy, but there are many who know far more than I on this subject.... Maybe TDR hasn't decided/thought about it, I don't know. I would like to continue to use firefox under that name, and use the logo too, but it probably isn't as simple as that.
David Sampson dbsrolltide_at_bellsouth.net On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:37 +0530, Siju George wrote: > On 10/12/06, David Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Due to the recent flair over the use of the Firefox logo, the GNU camp > > has decided to fork the entire project, into IceWeasel. The idea here > > is that they can't use the FF logo freely, so of course they must fork > > it. I just want to know how this is going to affect the OpenBSD camp, > > if at all. > > > > Just going through it in > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel > > I found > > =================================================== > > 1) > > The name IceWeasel was coined to refer to Mozilla Firefox during a > long debate within the Debian Project in 2004 and 2005. Mozilla > enforces trademarks vigorously and claims the right to deny the use of > the name "Firefox" to unofficial builds. > > 2) > > Distributions that do not have this permission must compile the > Firefox source with an option enabled that gives Firefox a generic > name and does not use the official logo or other artwork. > > I don't know about 4.0 but in 3.9 it compiles with the name "mozilla-firefox". > > Is this wrong? or did I miss something? > > Thankyou so much > > Kind Regards > > Siju
