On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 00:29, Warren Togami wrote:
Jos Vos wrote:
> And also a special permission for fedora.us, i.s.o. a general permission,
> does violate the general Open Source definition AFAIK.
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.
I don't know much about legal stuff, but I suspect this is
similar to
the situation of Red Hat's trademarks in RHEL.
The above is, but the open source issue is not.
If this does "violate the general Open Source definition",
I do not know
nor do I care.
Trademark issues are quite different from copyright issues. You should
not try to compare them if you "don't know much about legal stuff" ;) .
Leonard.
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