Icy debacle history - what happened to Thunderbird in 2004?

[Eric Dorland]

* Filipus Klutiero (chealer at gmail.com) wrote:
> Le October 27, 2008 12:00:16 pm Eric Dorland, vous avez écrit :
> > * Filipus Klutiero (chealer at gmail.com) wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > according to http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00342.html
> > > Mozilla Corp wanted Thunderbird to be lightly rebranded as far as 2004.
> > > What happened with this request? Did Mozilla change their mind until
> > > 2006 or what?
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > pkg-mozilla-maintainers mailing list
> > > pkg-mozilla-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mozilla-maintainers
> >
> > There previous position was that we couldn't use the term "Mozilla"
> > but it was ok to use the program's name. They changed their mind in
> > 2006.
> 
> Yes, but why did Sarge not follow this 2004 request? Was is lack of time? If 
> so, was it done after sarge's release or not at all (until the stronger 
> request of 2006)?

I don't recall the thunderbird situation, but for firefox we renamed
the package from mozilla-firefox to just firefox and I don't think
there was much other mozilla branding on it.

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Eric Dorland <eric at kuroneko.ca>
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