trademarks

Eric Dorland eric at debian.org
Sat Sep 23 20:12:47 UTC 2006


* Alexander Sack (asac at jwsdot.com) wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 11:06:00AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:37:15AM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 01:30:49AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > > > * Alexander Sack (asac at debian.org) wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I found the the bug about mozilla complaining about trademark
> > > > > infringement ... how shall we react? Rename asap?
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, I think that's how we need to proceed. I think xulrunner and
> > > > seamonkey are fine, but for firefox and thunderbird we're going to
> > > > have to rename. Iceweasel seems to be the favorite for Firefox, but
> > > > maybe Freefox and Freebird might have a little more general
> > > > appeal. I'm worried Freefox and Freebird might be too close to the
> > > > trademarks though.  
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I would prefer to use the freeXXX ones ... how can we find out if they
> > > are too close?
> > 
> > Ask them... but considering their record of changing their mind, I think
> > iceweasel is safer (and I kinda like it). Plus, I don't rellay like
> > free* names in free projects names.
> 
> So, I did not read the bug in detail, but I red something about
> revoking trademarks for our stable packages too? ... how can we deal
> with that? Can we remove the packages in the next stable update ... or
> even try to rename them?

We might have to do this, but I doubt it will be necessary. Let's
worry about it when it happens. 

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