Re: blog entry: "The Name “Firefox” Not Allowed In Ubuntu?"

[Conrad Knauer]

On 9/27/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> The Name "Firefox" Not Allowed In Ubuntu?
> (http://djst.org/blog/2006/09/27/the-name-firefox-not-allowed-in-ubuntu/)

Apparently this is a legal issue between Mozilla and Debian that's
been going on for a few years now; here's a summary from January 2005:

http://lwn.net/Articles/118268/

The most current round was started by this bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622

The Mozilla policy on its trademarks in "Community Edition" versions
of its products is here:

http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition-policy.html

If Debian called it "Firefox - Debian Community Edition" or some such
("Firefox DCE"? witha  corresponding "Firefox UCE" for us? :) would
that satisfy Mozilla's desire to maintain its trademark?  Hmm... I'll
try to add that to the bug report :-)

CK