[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

Fri Mar 11 10:33:04 CET 2011

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 00:35, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le vendredi 11 mars 2011 à 00:28 +0100, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
+>> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
+>> >>> Unfortunately the seamonkey name and logos are trademarked and the license
+>> >>> terms are most likely not acceptable so it seems to me we'll have to
+>> >>> rename/rebrand it.
+>> >>
+>> >> Is it different than firefox license terms ?
+>> >
+>> > Same rules AFAIK, see
+>> >   http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html
+
+Wasn''t there a license change regarding the Firefox logo in the end
+of 2010, that was related to this?
+
+>> Does anyone know if we had to request permission to use firefox and
+>> thunderbird trademarks ?
+>
+> For mandriva, it was done IIRC, but I think that sharing a part of the
+> building eased the dialog :)
+
+If needed, I can forward the request through the Mozilla Europe guys
+(across the street) who will certainly route us to the right people to
+ask.
+
+As far as I remember, having discussed about that with them in the
+past, there are two orthogonal product visions at stake here; so even
+in the long run, that will certainly be beneficial to work upstream to
+ease Firefox packaging and tuning on Linux platforms in general (and
+Mageia in particular).
+
+Romain
+