OK, I have written a draft letter to Mozilla corporation to allows us use their trademarks, but I'm not a diplomat, just a community-member, so it may look not very professional.
Please check my letter and make suggestion for improvements, before we send to Mozilla. ===================================================================== Dear Mozilla Corporation ! There is an ongoing project that may be interesting for you to know about, called "AppArmored FireFox". This project is led by the openSUSE community in an effort to make an Open-Source response to the Vista's "Protected-Mode Internet Explorer 7". This project aims to use Novell's AppArmor technology, to make FireFox's security stronger by applying additional rules or profile, that say what the application can do, or cannot do. This technology can eliminate some risks with zero-day attacks and undiscovered vulnerabilities in the FireFox browser. Most of the changes are going to the AppArmor profile, but still small changes in the FireFox itself may be required to successfully accomplish this project. Since this project is modified FireFox, I would like to give credit to you, and make the icon easy recognizeble, that our project is based on the original but it is not the original thing. Basically, I would like to ask for a permission to use modified Mozilla FireFox artwork, and trademarks, and in exchange I would give the Mozilla corporation "the Quality Control" of this interesting effort, that is a possibility to cast "veto" on radical changes in this interesting and future-oriented project. Now, I understand that having modified FireFox with official branding is controversial, but this is important for us to save the official branding, and I guarantee that users of AppArmored FireFox understand that is project is based-upon FireFox, but *not* the original one. For more info about AppArmored FireFox look here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=255541 The potential (and the problematic one) icon for this: (the one where I would really need your "OK") https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=125341 -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov", The Open-Source community member. 29.04.2007. ============================================================== -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
