[Mageia-dev] Seamonkey package

Fri Mar 18 02:11:12 CET 2011

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, andre999 wrote:
+
+> 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 
+
+No, they required permissions only when using their trademark. The
+source code is free software, and can be used without permission.
+
+> 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.)
+
+The iceweavel project is still alive, and still used in Debian at the
+moment, so it did not die shortly after Mozilla clarified their policy.
+
+And Mozilla did not change their policy. What they changed is the license
+of the logo, which was not available under a free license but is now
+available under the MPL, GPL or LGPL license (but still protected by
+trademark, which is different than copyright).
+
+>
+> 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.
+
+The "don't charge" is only for Unaltered Binaries distribution.
+
+>
+> 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.
+
+As already said, our package includes some small patches :
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/firefox/current/SOURCES/
+
+