Bug#815006: Renaming Iceweasel to Firefox

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 19/02/2016 01:19, Paul Wise a écrit :
> Thanks to everyone for the explanation. I think I understand the situation now.
>
> On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 10:42 -0500, Mike Connor wrote:
>
>> The one point I'll clarify is that this isn't even something I'd call
>> an exception.  We have always sought to permit and enable
>> modifications that do not negatively impact users (in terms of
>> security/privacy, user expectations of Firefox
>> stability/behaviour/compatibility, etc).  Other distros have been
>> following this process for more than a decade, so it's definitely not
>> a special case for Debian.  I'm thrilled that we're finally making
>> this step forward with Debian.  If other distros have questions or
>> concerns, I'm happy to provide answers.
> Could the Mozilla employees in this thread please get the trademark
> policy updated so that what Debian and other distributions are doing is
> explicitly allowed by the policy? As it stands, theoretically "any
> modification to the Mozilla product" ... "will require our permission
> if you want to use the Mozilla Marks" and Linux distros are thus
> relying on Mozilla ignoring their lack of trademark license.
>
I agree that it would be better to explicit that in the trademark policy.
As you can imagine (just like in Debian), this kind of changes can take time.
Until then, I believe that Mike Connor's comment and my bug report (note
that I used my @mozilla.com email address and not @debian.org) should
be enough for the Debian ftpmasters.

Sylvestre


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