> Then, Mozilla uses the trademark law to help the
> user identify their products (the whole objective of the trademark
> law): you cannot call your application Firefox or Thunderbird nor uses
> their logos. This does not raise freedom issues (you can still
> exercise the four freedoms on Mozilla's software) but means that a
> modified Firefox (e.g., that does not recommend any non-free software)
> cannot be called Firefox not use the Firefox logo.

https://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html prohibits
selling these programs with their branding.  FSF considers requiring
renaming programs when distributing modifications to not be a problem,
since modifications already require changes to the programs, but it is
too much work when distributing unmodified software (see
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2011-08/msg00014.html
for reference).

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