[gobolinux-devel] Firefox branding

[MJ Ray]

Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> [...] If we at GoboLinux has a patch that isn't already  
> submitted by any of the large distro with rights to redistribute we have  
> to submit it for review before we include it in our releases (if we want  
> to call the browser Firefox), but to me this seems highly unlikely as  
> either there will be an official Firefox release or a patch created by one  
> of the "big ones" before we come up with a patch, so I don't really see a  
> problem here.

(My! grandma, what large sentences you have... 
www.red-riding-hood.org.uk/wolfinbed.htm )

Does it matter whether any other distributor has submitted the patch?  
Are the trademark licences transferable in general?  I seem to recall 
that part of the problem for debian has been getting non-debian-specific 
non-terminating permission.

My fear is that any bugfix going into gobolinux will block on MozCorp 
approval, which is simply unethical when we can do better.

On a plus side, ams at gnu told me about www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla - 
would we be better off using/helping the mythical IceWeasel instead?
Or should it be available as an alternative?

Thanks for all your work on this,
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