On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Brandon Lozza <bran...@pwnage.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> that's the entire point of having trademarks. Free software projects are
>> obliged to allow you to access and modify their code. They are not
>> obliged to allow you to benefit from their reputation. It doesn't make
>> any sense to say 'I think this product needs to be modified but I wish
>> to be able to represent my modified product as being the same thing as
>> the original product in order to benefit from the reputation attached to
>> the original product'.
>> --
>
> Trademarks defeat the purpose of it being "free software". They impose
> restrictions. You have to remove MoFo's artwork and perform a name
> change or you're required to get permission from Mozilla to
> redistribute a modified binary.

So?

> That's not free.

It is, as you are _free_ to change the name and artwork anytime you want.
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