{"id":1650,"date":"2011-02-07T20:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T19:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2011-02-07T20:50:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T19:50:58","slug":"yet-another-clarification-about-iceweasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"Yet another clarification about Iceweasel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm glad that 5 years after the facts, people are still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glazman.org\/weblog\/dotclear\/index.php?post\/2011\/02\/07\/Lesson-well-taken-thanks-Mozilla\">not getting them straight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Firefox logo was not under a free <b>copyright<\/b> license. Therefore, Debian was using the Firefox name with the \"earth\" logo (without the fox), which was and still is under a free <b>copyright<\/b> license. Then Mozilla didn't want the Firefox name associated to an icon that is not the Firefox icon, for <b>trademark<\/b> reasons. Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>Although at the time Debian had concerns with the <b>trademark<\/b> policy, there was no point arguing over it, since Debian was not going to use the logo under a non-free <b>copyright<\/b> license anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it happens that the logo <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=933\">has turned to a free <b>copyright<\/b> license<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=555935\">Request for a trademark license<\/a> was filed a few weeks after we found out about the good news, and we are still waiting for an agreement draft from Mozilla to hopefully go forward.<\/p>\n<p>It is still not certain that this will actually lead to Debian shipping something called Firefox some day, but things are progressing, even if at a rather slow pace, and I have good hope (discussions are promising).<\/p>\n<p>By the way, thank you for the nice words, Daniel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad that 5 years after the facts, people are still not getting them straight. The Firefox logo was not under a free copyright license. Therefore, Debian was using the Firefox name with the &#8220;earth&#8221; logo (without the fox), which was and still is under a free copyright license. Then Mozilla didn&#8217;t want the Firefox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-planet-mozilla","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}