[Mageia-dev] -- mozilla branding issues -- was [Seamonkey package]

Mon Feb 6 21:40:29 CET 2012

Le Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:04:05 +0100,
+Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> a écrit :
+
+> Am 12.01.2012 16:55, schrieb Florian Hubold:
+> > Am 07.01.2012 18:36, schrieb Florian Hubold:
+> >> Am 16.04.2011 16:05, schrieb Christiaan Welvaart:
+> >>> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Tux99 wrote:
+> >>>
+(...)
+> Pinging again, because nobody replied. This should also be discussed
+> at next packager meeting, together with the situation according the
+> branding of other mozilla packages. Because we have branding enabled,
+> which we shouldn't have as we can't use branding AND have modified builds
+> (different than upstream tarball)
+> without approval of all modifications from mozilla.
+> 
+> 
+> For reference, here's the upstream report i was talking about, which i've
+> recently found again:
+> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555935
+> 
+> --
+> 
+> resending because of maintainer mail adress typo
+
+FTR, the Mozilla trademark policy :
+https://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html
+
+the relevant part :
+
+"	Modifications
+
+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. For example, if the product you've
+modified is Firefox, you may not use Mozilla or Firefox, in whole or in
+part, in its name. Also, it would be inappropriate for you to say "based on
+Mozilla Firefox". Instead, in the interest of complete accuracy, you could
+describe your executables as "based on Mozilla technology", or
+"incorporating Mozilla source code." In addition, you may want to read the
+discussion on the "Powered by Mozilla" logo.
+
+In addition, if you compile a modified version, as discussed above, with
+branding enabled (the default in our source code is branding disabled), you
+will require Mozilla's prior written permission. If it's not the unmodified
+installer package from www.mozilla.com, and you want to use our
+trademark(s), our review and approval of your modifications is required.
+You also must change the name of the executable so as to reduce the chance
+that a user of the modified software will be misled into believing it to be
+a native Mozilla product.
+
+Again, any modification to the Mozilla product, including adding to,
+modifying in any way, or deleting content from the files included with an
+installer, file location changes, added code, modification of any source
+files including additions and deletions, etc., will require our permission
+if you want to use the Mozilla Marks. If you have any doubt, just ask us at
+trademarks at mozilla.com.
+"
+
+regards
+Julien
+