On 12/10/06, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David Sampson 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.
Actually I quickly read the license file included with the source
distribution of firefox, and found no reason why the logo/name can't be
used in custom builds. I'm no license expert, but does anyone have a
clue how mozilla decided that builds other than those from mozilla can't
use the name/logo?
Imho that was a pretty stupid decision by the mozilla team, things like
names and logos are one of the most important aspects in marketing. It
would be foolish to wreck it.
For those interested, Theo already discussed the problem in 2004-03:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=107949032018172&w=2
Finally, how do the mozilla developers feel about this? Do they agree
with this "management decision"?
It's hard to say. A lot of people disagreed with the "throwing away"
of the Application Suite, including some core layout developers, but
MoFo didn't really listen. So it's not like it's Gecko developers that
decide these kind of issues at MoFo / Mozilla Corporation...
Cheers,
Constantine.
