Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks

Posted Jan 13, 2005 17:49 UTC (Thu) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123)
In reply to: Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks by khim
Parent article: Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks

While both the Iceweasel and Community Edition options are arguably DFSG-free, they both present policy challenges. Iceweasel is the best option from a freeness perspective, but poses challenges to Debian users, since many inexperienced users may be confused by the name changes. On the other hand, Debian developers may not want to live with the restrictions of the community edition.

TeX is different because 1) it has a much smaller user base than Mozilla, so a name change, if one were necessary, would have a smaller impact, and 2) a user who is experienced enough to even know what TeX is can probably handle a hypothetical name change.