On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:58:07PM +1000, Paul Wayper wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: >> Sorry, but this is fundamentally wrong. Firefox was not renamed to Iceweasel >> in Debian due to "allowing and using proprietary binaries". It was renamed >> because the maintainer believed MoFo's **trademark** compliancy requirements >> had a detrimental impact on his ability to comply with the DFSG. > Well, if it's fundamentally wrong, you'd better go and correct the > IceWeasel pages on Wikipedia and on > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/, because they reckon it's also > because of using a closed-source reporting app and allowing binary plugins. Oh, wow. This is the first I've heard of this Gnuzilla project... Anyway, someone must have corrected the Wikipedia pages because they state that the Debian changes were as Jeff said, not as the linked Gnuzilla site says. [1] Meh. I hope Debian sticks with the debranded IceWeasel and doesn't get sucked into this anti-non-free Firefox fork called IceWeasel... Now _that_ is going to dillute the brand in the marketplace. ^_^ Unless of course the anti-non-free stuff turns out to be turnoffable but their patch cycle is more useful to the packagers. Maybe we need to take a third route, something that cherrypicks both Firefox and IceWeasel... Has anyone trademarked RedPanda yet? [2] [1] History tab suggests they were fixed on the 20th or so. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda <== Sooooo cute. Get a photo of one with its tail curled like the Debian swirl, and the logo's set. ^_^ On the other hand, this's also where Firefox came from. The more things change, the more they stay the same... -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE On-hiatus Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Pobox.Com Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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