Re: Distributing firefox with preset home page

Jan Schejbal wrote:
> Is it allowed to redistribute Firefox with a different home (start) page 
> as default, and still call it firefox?

No, not without permission. Under the Mozilla trademark policy

http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/

permission is granted only for distribution of unmodified binaries. 
Distribution of modified binaries requires permission if they use the 
Firefox trademarks (or other Mozilla marks).

> http://www.foxload . com/firefox-de.html (link made unclickable) is 
> doing exactly that. A quick test in a VM showed no other nasty things, 
> but someone distributing outdated firefox versions from a 
> official-looking, adwords-advertised site as a kind of "adware" does not 
> exactly meet my definition of ethical behaviour.

For future reference, you can direct these sorts of issues to 
[email protected]. (I'll forward this one myself.)

Frank


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Frank Hecker
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