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It is typical, if only to keep the trademark from being used by a completely unrelated bit of software. See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/
by chipsa 4y ago
It is typical, if only to keep the trademark from being used by a completely unrelated bit of software. See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/ or https://trademarks.justia.com/771/04/sqlite-77104711.html https://trademarks.justia.com/771/04/sqlite-77104711.html
It just gives teeth when someone uses them wrongly.
- paulgb 4y agoHence Debian shipping the “Iceweasel” browser instead of “Firefox”. (I may have the history wrong here? In any case, someone forked Firefox and called it Iceweasel for trademark reasons.)
- smegsicle 4y agoyeah debian was screwing with the builds as they frequently do on their repos, and mozilla lawyers pointed out that the trademark is only allowed for the unmodified software evidently they worked things out since, as they're calling it firefox again