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[GNU-linux-libre] Problem with Thunderbird
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Richard Stallman |
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[GNU-linux-libre] Problem with Thunderbird |
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Sat, 11 Oct 2014 23:24:06 -0400 |
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Thunderbird has the same trademark problem that Firefox has:
its trademark license limits verbatim redistribution, making
the program nonfree.
To make it free, one must change its name. (Debian changes the name
to "IceDove" for this reason.)
There is a feature in the upstream sources to build with a different name,
so this should be easy. Would people please do this in their distros?
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Dr Richard Stallman
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