Gnuzilla...
By glazou on Wednesday 11 October 2006, 10:31 - Mozilla - Permalink
When free rhymes with stupidity...
This is becoming totally ridiculous and the *zilla name is counter-productive and too close to Mozilla's trademark. The released source changes are against the 1.5 tree, and I wish maintainers good luck with every new Firefox minor and major release.
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why is it ridicoulous? if mozilla is a free software, fork has to be consider as normal, IMHO.
Hello Daniel, if you have time, what is your take on this article: mjg59.livejournal.com/681... ?
Thanks,
jusque là tout parait convenable.
la politique des sorties de binaire de mozilla.org les dérange ou ne les arrange pas , alors ils font leur propre distribution du logiciel libre de mozilla.
on peut bien sur s'interroger si c'est si utile et pertinent. du moment que cela sert à quelqu'un sans poser de problèmes à d'autres, je n'ai pas à avoir d'opinions
Logical decision.
FSF is for Free Software Foundation.
> (...) the *zilla name is (...) too close to Mozilla's trademark
s/Mozilla/Godzilla/ ?
glandium: mozilla and godzilla, not a problem ; godzilla is not a tm in the software area...
Not a trademark in the software area, but the mozilla name and the logo associated with it make it obvious that it's been 'inspired' from there.
And cf. Mobilix vs. Asterix...
And cf. Mandrake Linux VS Mandrake the Magician.
"And cf. Mobilix vs. Asterix..."
and Mandrake .
The Mandrake case is terribly close to the Godzilla one. Had Mandrake not used the so descriptive hat and magic wand, they would have had a better case in court. With the Mozilla logo being a giant lizard, I wouldn’t dare ignoring the issue. “mozilla and godzilla, not a problem” : famous last words.
Since AOL/Netscape had an agreement with the owners of the Godzilla trademark, I would assume it has been transmitted to the Mozilla Foundation along with the trademarks themselves.
Benoit: Debian *had* an agreement with the owners of the Firefox trademark... it has just been withdrawn.
What is counter productive? Having patches and not submitting them to MoFo.
Repackaging as a Libre distribution, why not as if I understand the issue their license would not allow to use something else, but not sharing the improvement to be incorporated in the core... come on, guys, at least acknowledge the 100 years-man work put in Gecko by hundreds of contributors and please don't act as 8 years old kids...
/ why is it ridicoulous? if mozilla is a free software, fork has to be consider as normal, IMHO. /
It is ridicoulous because simply compiling firefox creates a complete free package without trademarks (which is their goal).