On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 10:55, Warren Togami wrote:
Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>
>>fedora.us Extras received special permission from the upstream Firefox
>>team that allows us to use the "official binary only Firefox trademark
>>icon" in our firefox package. As long as fedora.us Extras distributes
>>the binary of firefox, we may use that icon, but anybody rebuilding and
>>redistributing the package technically should toggle a switch that
>>disables that trademarked icon.
>
>
> Now you tell us. Is this in COPYING? Such deals should be made explicit
> to the user to avoid inadvertent violations.
>
Not our problem. Firefox team's responsibility to enforce their own
trademark. I believe COPYING only states the copyright licensing
rights, which as you stated is different from trademark rules.
I suppose as a courtesy we should add a %doc TRADEMARK file that
explains the rules, and it should be commented in the .spec file. While
we are probably not obligated to do so, it wouldn't hurt to add it to
the next revision of firefox.
It's only that files like these tend to get overlooked. Additionally,
you could also do something like this in the spec file:
%define fedora_buildsys %(if [ "$(hostname -f | grep '\.fedora\.us')"
];
then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
[...]
%if %fedora_buildsys
SourceXY: firefox-tm-icon.png
%endif
[...]
%build
%if %fedora_buildsys
# Replace non-TMed icon with TMed one
cp -f %{SOURCEXY} [...]
%endif
[...]
This would pretty much ensure that nobody _accidentally_ violates the
trademark. It's good to cover our own asses, but if we can cover those
of our users, it's even better.
Nils
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