[juneau-lug] Re: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft

  • From: deadcats <deadcats@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:56:30 -0800

:::sigh:::
Seems as if the free as in "free beer" and "free speech" are all being
overcome by lawyers--and I'd bet there's nothing "free" about them...

IMHO, there's way too much scrutiny (read: nitpicking) over it all. Sure, a
person wants to protect the rights to their intellectual property, but at
what cost for open source? I mean, it's free right? So what's the argument?

Unless a company foresees different circumstances somewhere in the future?..

But it would certainly be nice if an application was called by a proper name
across all distributions, rather than a rebranding of a perfectly good
original name.

Oops! Where would that leave Firefox???

An acknowledgment of the authors, if nothing else, should be prominently
made. It seems to me that something else would sorta be misleading...like
CoolToad...IceWeasel...whatever it's called...

regards,
-dc


On 10/28/06, James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 17:52, James Zuelow wrote:
>
> > I am surprised by the amount of emotion going into this 'debate' - it
> seems
> > pretty straight forward to me.  If you modify FireFox you can't use the
> > FireFox logo and use the "community edition" name.  There are lots of FF
> > Community Editions out there.
>
> Er, sorry - left out a word there.
>
> Modified FireFox MUST use the "community edition" name.  The above
> paragraph
> makes it sound like you can't use the community edition name for modified
> FireFox.  Using CE is what is what Mozilla wants you to do.  At least
> modified Windows version use the CE tag, if not many Linux versions.
>
> (For example:  http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/fmfirefox.htm)
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