Comment 404 for bug 269656

 Steve Langasek wrote:

"I think the main impact it has is to make this bug log frighteningly long and hard to find information in, and cause a mail storm for the poor developers who are tasked with maintaining the firefox packages in Ubuntu."

100% agree. We should get out of here and take this somewhere else - there is an established forum thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=919444. I suggest everyone picks up and goes there.

But I do think this is an issue that needs thrashing out, and possibly has wider implications - at least for any 'branded' free software. I appreciate there are many many smarter folk than me have looked at this, but as far as I can see, the name 'firefox' part of the code tree that is published GPL, MPL, LGPL and therefore is free to use. quote GPL:

"You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it"

Which means the build process results in the creation of a binary 'firefox'. Art work aside, how can a menu item labelled 'firefox' be restricted?