simo simo.sorce@xsec.it wrote:
On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 08:38 +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
No, you cannot modify the artwork and redistribute.
This is plainly false, as long as you don't use the trademarks you can.
Here's the complete artwork license in the Mozilla Firefox source tree:-
You are not granted rights or licenses to the trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation or any party, including without limitation the Firefox name or logo.
For more information, see: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/licensing.html
Source: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/670cb792e94a/other-licenses/brand...
So, it only speaks of trademarks and doesn't grant *any* permissions. As it stands, you cannot modify the artwork and redistribute and this is intentional: you do not have the freedom to redistribute modified versions of what is called Mozilla Firefox - it is not free software. Happily, you can cut lumps out and call that free software, but that means only a subset of Firefox is free software.
Some of my previous summaries of this topic:- http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2007/debian#iceweasel http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2006/debian#iceweasel
Regards,