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Firefox Faces Trademark Issues

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the all-in-a-name dept.

daria42 writes "The Debian development community is currently hotly debating whether the Mozilla Foundation's strict trademarks policy violates Debian's social contract. However, in a twist, it appears Mozilla has not received approval for the Firefox trademarks yet, and the Firefox name may already be taken in the UK and Germany. The foundation has not applied for the Thunderbird trademark anywhere yet."

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  1. Firefox tm policy and Debian tm policy v. similar by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As far as I can see the Firefox trademark policy isn't fundamentally different from Debian's own trademark policy.

    If you are distributing what Debian distribute you can call it Debian. If you want to do something different, call it something else.

    Isn't that essentially what the Firefox trademark policy says?

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