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Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), publisher of Debian™ GNU/Linux and Debian™ GNU/kFreeBSD™ has reached an agreement in its longstanding trade dress dispute with the Mozilla Corporation, publisher of the Firefox application suite. Under the agreement, SPI will pay an undisclosed sum to the Mozilla Corp. and periodically turn over marketing data regarding SPI's customers. In exchange, SPI will receive a nonexclusive license to distribute the Firefox suite as part of SPI's Debian™ products.
SPI agreed not to alter the branding of the Firefox suite; not to disable its Pocket integration; not to alter the suite's anti-phishing or search features, which are sponsored by Mozilla Corp. partners; and to discontinue its competing Iceweasel Web suite, which is based on Mozilla Corp. software licensed under a previous accord. The Firefox suite will be provided to SPI's Debian™ customers as an automatic update via the firm's Dpkg℠ service. The updates will go out over the course of the next three months to groups of randomly selected customers, in order to provide what SPI calls "a superior upgrade experience."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @06:27PM
IP
That term just leads to confusion [gnu.org].
Considering how obsessed Linux people are about having their code used in ways they don't approve of
What do you mean by "used in ways they don't approve of", and how is that attitude related to Linux? Do you mean Free Software proponents? Not all "Linux people" or Free Software activists are obsessed with stopping others from using "their" code in ways they don't approve of. In fact, that would defeat the purpose of Free Software. Some Free Software activists don't even use the GPL, preferring other licenses (or the public domain) instead.
And the effects that copyright has on society are different from the effects that trademarks have on society. This has nothing to do with code. This sort of confusion is not surprising given that you use terms like "IP", which are designed to confuse people into conflating concepts that are only superficially similar.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02 2016, @08:45PM
Heh, first word I saw on that page after reading the IP entry was "LAMP" and their suggestion to call it "GLAMP" so every knows it is really GNU/Linux. Looks like I better send out a memo to our team to remind them of that when they refer to our servers that use a Linux kernel without a single GNU executable on them.