[Hamara-devel] name challenge - alternate names for 'Mozilla Firefox' and 'Browser'

[Jonas Smedegaard]

[replying only to -devel list]

Quoting shirish (2015-11-05 18:49:35)
> The single reason why 'Mozilla Firefox' not is that the license under 
> which MPL (Mozilla Public License) operates simply states that if you 
> change the branding, change anything you can't anymore call it 
> Firefox.
>
> Also there are many functionalities in the browser itself that we 
> would be looking at taking out (and probably might use the debian 
> iceweasel package as a base to start to do that) and even strip more 
> if needed.

While true that "Firefox" is a registered trademark, you need not invent 
a new name: "Iceweasel" is a well established and free to use name for 
the Mozilla codebase.

I suggest that you take the iceweasel source package and instead of 
forking it you extend it to additionally build an iceweasel-light binary 
package.

I am sure others worldwide could have great benefit from a lightweight 
flavor of the Iceweasel package which worked as a drop-in replacement - 
i.e. worked seamlessly with all plugins and other hooks made for 
iceweasel (except obviously the parts you've avoided, which could be 
handled by Breaks: or Conflicts: in the binary package), and was as well 
maintained regarding security updates as Iceweasel is.


 - Jonas

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