[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

Fri Mar 18 01:17:38 CET 2011

Le vendredi 18 mars 2011 à 01:00 +0100, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> 
+> > Le jeudi 17 mars 2011 à 18:24 -0400, andre999 a écrit :
+> > > nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> > 
+> > > > Also the "do not charge for it" would make it non free (but it does not
+> > > > seem to be mentioned in the "Modifications" section, only in the
+> > > > "Unaltered Binaries" section).
+> > > 
+> > > Why would "do not charge for it" make it non-free ?
+> > > That doesn't seem to be a requirement of open source.  Although charging 
+> > > for it is generally permitted in unmodified open source licenses.
+> > 
+> > So that mean that someone cannot ask money for selling a cdrom with it,
+> > since it would be charging for the software. 
+> > 
+> > That's clearly a restriction of usage. So we need to rebrand it.
+> 
+> It seems this restriction only applies to "Unaltered Binaries"
+> distribution.
+
+Yup, but then for altered binaries, we just cannot use the brand, see
+"modification" :
+
+"If you're taking full advantage of the open-source nature of Mozilla's
+products and making significant functional changes, you may not
+redistribute the fruits of your labor under any Mozilla trademark,
+without Mozilla's prior written consent."
+
+I do understand their position, and I also know that they need to defend
+their trademark ( as not doing would prevent them from defending later,
+as some lawyer explained to me one day ), so I do not blame them.
+
+But if we wish to respect their policy ( and that's what we both wish ),
+we will likely need to change the name, or to move it to tainted or
+non-free ( because either trademark issues preventing distribution or
+removal of a basic freedom would be a reason to do so ).
+ 
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+