On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Brandon Lozza brandon@pwnage.ca wrote:
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
You have to remove MoFo's artwork and perform a name change or you're required to get permission from Mozilla to redistribute a modified binary. That's not free.
Yes, it is.
In a sense that you're "free" to do whatever Mozilla says, then yes, it's free.
By your logic pretty much every software is non free.
$insertgplprogramm ... I cannot link it against proprietary software which makes it non free.
$randombsdlicensedprogram ... I cannot remove that damned copyright notice ? Thats a restriction !!!! its non free.
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But I digress. (Just wanted to show that the claim "it has restrictions and thus is non free" is nonsense).
But anyway in case you missed it trademarks and copyright are entirely different things. The whole free software concept applies to the _later_ NOT the former.