The problem is only getting worse. It appears that Mozilla doesn't want the name being used either[1]. Mike Connor[2] is the gentleman from Mozilla that filed the bug this time, and appears to be handling trademark issues for the Corporation.
The inherent problem is that the logo (and apparently the name as well) are non-free works. This goes against Debian's Free Software Guidelines. They have already pretty much determined that they will be changing the name and logo of their firefox package to comply with the DFSG and Mozilla's trademark. Since Ubuntu's packages are based on Debian's, and Ubuntu has similar requirements for packages in main, I wouldn't expect this bug to be fixed the way you would like. More than likely, the powers-that-be will (and, IMHO, should) follow Debian's lead. However, Mr. Connor hints that he is reviewing the patchset Ubuntu applies to the Mozilla tarballs. This is the first step towards being approved for use of the trademark, so I may very well be wrong. As an aside, Debian's firefox maintainer has an entertaining poll going on what they should rename Firefox to[3]. 1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622 2. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=827142 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #354622 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622 ** Also affects: firefox (upstream) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Firefox Uses Incorrect Icon https://launchpad.net/bugs/9318 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
