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February 10, 2004

Bart Decrem on Mozilla Trademark Policy

Mozilla is developing a trademark policy to cover its new Firefox icons. There has been some hubbub over this. In this forum posting, Bart Decrem explains why we have this, and what we're trying to achieve.

Posted by ben at February 10, 2004 1:04 AM

Comments

Hi Ben,

Thanks for posting this. I think it would be a good idea to attach Bart's post to this MozillaZine thread, posted by you:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=50876

I hope that the Mozilla Foundation will soon provide alternative artwork for developers who want to contribute their optimized and customized builds. Their commitment to this project has been very important in the past; keeping these people 'on board' will be very important for the future of the Mozilla community, and hence, the Mozilla project as a whole.

My suggestion would be to use the same (!) basic symbols, but e.g. apply different colours, replace the blue Earth by a transparant glass bulb (through which a wizard could see the future of Firefox), or create a similar distinction that will separate this artwork from the official trademarks. In fact, what I am suggesting is for the Mozilla Foundation to create _official_ (trademarked, but publicly available) logo's and other quality artwork for the benefit of all _unofficial_ contributors to the Mozilla project.

That may sound like a contradiction, but it really is not. It would, however, be a clear acknowledgement of the importance of the Mozilla Community; something the 'unofficial' contributors really deserve.

Posted by: MORA at February 10, 2004 5:05 PM

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