[kwlug-disc] Icedove?

Darcy Casselman dscassel at gmail.com
Sun May 11 14:58:45 EDT 2014


You might want to clearly restate the question then.


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:56 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:

> Yep. Wasn't talking about the branding.
>
>
> On 14-05-11 10:57 AM, Darcy Casselman wrote:
>
>> Mozilla takes that stance that if you take their code, say for Firefox,
>> and
>> change it (as is your right under their license), it is no longer Firefox
>> and cannot be branded as such (as is their right as the brand-holder).
>>
>> The code is free; the brand is not.
>>
>> Ubuntu takes a similar stance, allowing the mark (or similar mark) be used
>> for a limited set of officially recognized derivatives (kubuntu, xubuntu,
>> lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, edubuntu, and ubuntu gnome).
>>
>> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:54 AM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:
>>
>>  Guess I wasn't very clear.
>>>
>>> I get the whole fork of Mozilla stuff, and that forks need to be branded
>>> differently.
>>>
>>> The mucking with stuff is within the app itself, nothing to do with the
>>> branding.
>>>
>>> On 14-05-10 11:09 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
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>>>> unsolicited asks:
>>>>
>>>>  Why they have to keep mucking with it,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> License restrictions on non-free software.
>>>>
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