freeing mozillas - thunderbird rename - iceweasel upstream - Alexander Sack (asac)'s software site

Saturday, September 30. 2006

Posted by asac (Alexander Sack) in Debian OS, Debian Thunderbird at 22:38 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

freeing mozillas - thunderbird rename - iceweasel upstream

As I red the post of MJ Ray on planet, I contacted the gnuzilla project and offered to join them in order to make them a good upstream for distributors that cannot obey the new mozilla trademark policy.

My current preference is to use snoweagle for thunderbird. IMO it would be a good choice, as it would be in the same spirit as iceweasel for firefox.

Anyway, more ideas are welcome …

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

I think that the "Freefox" name is brilliant – if you do not read it with much attention, it reads just like Firefox and still it has the intended difference and the word "free" inside.
Something similar should be found for Thunderbird – something that starts with "T" and ends with "bird". "Tenderbird" could be a nice choice, but I am sure that better alternatives could be found.

#1 Aigars Mahinovs (Homepage) on 2006-10-04 19:42 (Reply)

Why exactly do you think the Mozilla Trademark policy is "new"? It has not changed drastically in a very long time.

Take a look at [http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html]. At the bottom of the page, there is a link to the "Document History." The history shows the page was originally created in 2004. The policy is not new.

Also, the distribution policy is located at [http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/distribution-policy.html]. You can check the history of that file, too, and see when it was created and modified.

So, please make sure you have the facts when stating something. Thanks!

#2 reed on 2006-10-07 03:03 (Reply)

I knew of that obvious fact …

Anyway, there is always a not-explicit component in a policy. Mozilla Foundation presented by gerv allowed us to distribute firefox/thunderbird the way we do atm. We even renamed the package from mozilla-xxx to just xxx in order to obey.

Call it what you want, a change in trademark strategy or tactics or whatever, but for me this definitly boils down to a "change in trademark policy".

#2.1 asac on 2006-10-07 03:30 (Reply)

I think Lightningfish would be the most obvious choice

#3 Dagur on 2006-10-10 17:12 (Reply)

I think Lightningfish is a very good choice as it contrast with Thunderbird.

#4 Ansar on 2006-10-12 12:36 (Reply)

IceWeasel is about opposites (Fire->Ice, Fox->Weasel).

So for ThunderBird, well any geek of an elements-based game will tell you Thunder->Earth, and the opposite of a "bird" is clearly "mother" (if you disagree, think of different senses of "bird"...) So yeah… EarthMother.

Just hope the Tauren don’t catch us…

#4.1 Mark on 2006-10-12 21:27 (Reply)

Add Comment

Name
Email
Homepage
In reply to
Comment	To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly. Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above: BBCode format allowed Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (word), underscore are made via _word_. Textile-formatting allowed Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images.
	Remember Information? Subscribe to this entry