[Sussex] IceWeasel

Mike Diack mike_diack at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 13 09:31:48 UTC 2006


Personally I think this forking of Firefox is a BAD idea. Especially since it's all over a trademark and logo, and Debian protect theirs also, putting them in the same boat as Mozilla Corp.
 
Surely the best way forward is compromise. This is one instance IMHO, where forks are BAD news.
 
Mike



> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:44:36 +0100> From: starshine at gavmusic.uklinux.net> To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk> Subject: [Sussex] IceWeasel> > I noticed an announcement on DebianHelp.org that Debian is rename> Firefox to "IceWeasel" to overcome licencing problems with the Firefox> name & logo.> > The DebianHelp article is here:> > http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1548> > Also at Wikipedia:> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel> > I think the IceWeasel logo looks good.> > Gavin.> > [use-debian]> > __ > Sussex mailing list> Sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk> E-mail Address: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk> Sussex LUG Website: http://www.sussex.lug.org.uk/> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sussex
_________________________________________________________________
Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail.
http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sussex/attachments/20061013/0cb8aa07/attachment.htm 


More information about the Sussex mailing list