<div dir="ltr"><div>Mozilla takes that stance that if you take their code, say for Firefox, and change it (as is your right under their license), it is no longer Firefox and cannot be branded as such (as is their right as the brand-holder).<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The code is free; the brand is not. <br><br></div><div>Ubuntu takes a similar stance, allowing the mark (or similar mark) be used for a limited set of officially recognized derivatives (kubuntu, xubuntu, lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, edubuntu, and ubuntu gnome). <br>
<br>Darcy.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:54 AM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Guess I wasn't very clear.<br>
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I get the whole fork of Mozilla stuff, and that forks need to be branded differently.<br>
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The mucking with stuff is within the app itself, nothing to do with the branding.<div class=""><br>
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On 14-05-10 11:09 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:<br>
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unsolicited asks:<br>
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Why they have to keep mucking with it,<br>
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License restrictions on non-free software.<br>
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