trademarks

[Mike Hommey]

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.

Mike