__/ [ JPB ] on Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:58 \__
> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:23:14 +0100
>> <1177229.OAQvzhRpln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Boy, am I sick of renaming this thing
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Phoenix, that was a cool name. Damn you PhoenixBIOS. Firebird was good,
>>> | and who needs another database anyway? Mozilla Firefox is a cute name,
>>> | with a cute logo. A logo we can't use. Oh wait, we can't use the name
>>> | either?
>>> |
>>> | So the Mozilla Corporation has asked us to stop using the name
>>> | "Firefox" in our version of Firefox, unless we use the fox on a globe
>>> | logo. We can't use the logo because its copyright license is not free.
>>> | Even if somehow we could do this, they want to vet every patch we apply
>>> | before we release a package called Firefox containing it.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://ze-dinosaur.livejournal.com/12083.html
>>
>> Hm. "Iceweasel" is the best they could come up with for the fork?
>> Still, it might work. IMO, this dispute verges on stupidity, though.
>> Then again, licensing can be like that.
>>
> <snip>
>
> There are some better suggestions than Iceweasel in the comments, such as:
> Foxfire;
> Freefox, OpenFox, WorldFox, DebFox;
> Icehound, LightningHound;
> FireHound, ThunderHound;
> FireBrand, ThunderBrand;
> FireFly, ThunderAnt;
>
> ok the last one wasn't in the comments, I just threw it in anyway to go
> with FireFly.
ThunderFox to combine both? A bit like SeaMonkey? I guess the latter might
infridge some Microsoft copyrights (their boss who gos by the alias
SickMonkey).
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