Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, For those of you who're not aware: the Mozilla Foundation is now forcing people who want to use their firefox trademark to display an EULA to their users on first run of the software. It does not currently require them to accept to it, so they can easily bypass the license by just ignoring

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:17:18AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : For those of you who're not aware: the Mozilla Foundation is now forcing people who want to use their firefox trademark to display an EULA Hi Wouter, haven't we read on planet.debian.org that they changed their minds? Have a

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:17:18AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For those of you who're not aware: the Mozilla Foundation is now forcing people who want to use their firefox trademark to display an EULA to their users on first run of the software. It does not

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-18 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] For those of you who're not aware: the Mozilla Foundation is now forcing people who want to use their firefox trademark to display an EULA to their users on first run of the software. It does not

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:56:28PM +0100, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] For those of you who're not aware: the Mozilla Foundation is now forcing people who want to use their firefox trademark to

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-18 Thread MJ Ray
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:56:28PM +0100, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also note that FSF's page at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ says Mozilla's Firefox build includes non-free software. It's actually outdated. Mozilla's Firefox build don't

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:56:28PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] For those of you who're not aware: the Mozilla Foundation is now forcing people who want to use their firefox trademark to display an EULA to their users on first run of the software. It

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - I've always considered Debian to be a leading member of the Free Software community; as such, I feel it is our duty to tell others when we think they are straying off the path of Free Software. Personally, I'd rather that we not do this. There