trademarks

[Alexander Sack]

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?


 - Alexander

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