Distributing firefox with preset home page
Jan Schejbal
page as default, and still call it firefox?
http://www.foxload . com/firefox-de.html (link made unclickable) is
doing exactly that. A quick test in a VM showed no other nasty things,
but someone distributing outdated firefox versions from a
official-looking, adwords-advertised site as a kind of "adware" does
not exactly meet my definition of ethical behaviour.
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On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:47 AM, Jan Schejbal wrote:
> Is it allowed to redistribute Firefox with a different home (start)
> page as default, and still call it firefox?
>
> http://www.foxload . com/firefox-de.html (link made unclickable) is
> doing exactly that.
Jan,
This is not allowed. I will bring it up with Mozilla's legal team.
Thank you very much!
Gen Kanai
Frank Hecker
> Is it allowed to redistribute Firefox with a different home (start) page
> as default, and still call it firefox?
No, not without permission. Under the Mozilla trademark policy
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/
permission is granted only for distribution of unmodified binaries.
Distribution of modified binaries requires permission if they use the
Firefox trademarks (or other Mozilla marks).
> http://www.foxload . com/firefox-de.html (link made unclickable) is
> doing exactly that. A quick test in a VM showed no other nasty things,
> but someone distributing outdated firefox versions from a
> official-looking, adwords-advertised site as a kind of "adware" does not
> exactly meet my definition of ethical behaviour.
For future reference, you can direct these sorts of issues to
trade...@mozilla.com. (I'll forward this one myself.)
Frank
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