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Then if I did release something identical to Firefox, I'd be releasing Firefox. I doubt it would be controversial at all, if anyone noticed.
by jvickers 12y ago
Then if I did release something identical to Firefox, I'd be releasing Firefox. I doubt it would be controversial at all, if anyone noticed.
- vertex-four 12y agoFirefox's name and logo are trademarked, and the source license they use does not allow you to use that trademark. The result being that you can't distribute binaries of Firefox, whether modified or not, with the Firefox name and logo - not because of the copyright on the code, but because of the trademark on the name and logo.
- kd0amg 12y agoIs it really a trademark violation if you haven't modified the binary at all? If I wrap a MacBook's casing around some different hardware and try to sell it as a MacBook, that's pretty shady, but if I have a stock MacBook, I wouldn't expect Apple to have a claim that I'm using their branding on a product that's not theirs.