[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

Fri Mar 18 00:28:28 CET 2011

Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+>
+> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:51, nicolas vigier<boklm at mars-attacks.org>  wrote:
+>> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+>>> Wasn''t there a license change regarding the Firefox logo in the end
+>>> of 2010, that was related to this?
+>>
+>> Yes :
+>> http://glandium.org/blog/?p=933
+>
+> Right, thanks. But that doesn't solve the trademark usage issue,
+> actually. So the question is still open.
+>
+> Romain
+
+First of all, for a short period of time Mozilla seemed to require 
+special permission to do _any_ redistribution based on Mozilla source 
+code, a situation which was a response to commercial sites grossly 
+abusing Mozilla software, essentially defrauding end-users in the name 
+of Mozilla.
+Subsequently they clarified their policy (but forgot to update their 
+site for a while.)
+(The iceweavel project, created in reaction to this problem, died 
+shortly after Mozilla clarified their policy.)
+
+According to their site, the clarified policy says essentially that
+as long as
+1) we don't modify the source code (other than applying 
+Mozilla-originated patches, which we can do by updating from their cvs), and
+2) we don't charge for the code,
+we can redistribute Mozilla products using the name, trademarks and logos.
+
+As far as I know, Mandriva has never modified the source code, other 
+than applying Mozilla security patches.  And I don't see us at Mageia 
+wanting to do so either.
+
+In case of doubt, the site asks us to contact them at trademarks at mozilla.com
+
+In the worst case, we'll have to get permission (which is assured in our 
+case).
+But I don't think the Mozilla policy requires it.
+
+-- 
+André
+