bengoodger wrote:From what I understand, this does not preclude you from using Firefox artwork if you wish to link to mozilla.org, we're just trying to prevent people from identify themselves AS us, or create builds that masquerade as official builds.
The Mozilla Foundation will be using this new iconography to differentiate official builds from third party ones, so that end users always know that they are using a bona fide Mozilla build when they see the Firefox logo. As a result, permission to use these graphics in custom builds is explicitly NOT granted automatically
Ben,
Where's this going? All the good of the 'builders' out there, and you strip away the artwork because it's trademarked? This, in a sense, alieniates all the builders, because they're NOT 'official' builds? They weren't offical in the first sense. Will more and more of the CVS repository become trademarked and removed from circulation? Didn't a company by the name of Netscape do that in the past?
This looks like the beginning of a very slippery slope, over names and graphics?
Yes, there are probably LOTS of legal reasons (because we live in a 'sick' world) but it just disheartens me so to see all the good work boil down to legal issues or battles. Something about this just doesn't feel right.
In closing, I'm not posting to argue about all the licensing issues. They're there for a reason.