Re: Does IceCat use Google's commercial Site Blocking Service?

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi Sinan,

it is not against the purpose of GNU, the purpose of GNU is to have a
Free operating system.  Trademarks are not a problem for this purpose.

That document seems outdated, please refer to this one:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/privacy/notices-firefox.  In both
versions anyway I don't see anything against GNU principles, it is an
external service to use as-is.  I am not a lawyer to understand
consequences completely, does anybody know more about it and if these
services are a problem for GNU IceCat?

Giuseppe

Sinan Aykut <address@hidden> writes:

> As I was reading the Service as saw these conditions in the text
>
> 3. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. Subject to this Agreement and to all applicable
> licensing terms governing your use of the Product, Mozilla, for itself and
> on behalf of its licensors, hereby reserves all intellectual property rights
> in the Services, except for the rights expressly granted in this Agreement.
> You may not remove or alter any trademark, logo, copyright or other
> proprietary notice in or on the Product. This agreement does not grant you
> any right to use the trademarks, service marks or logos of Mozilla or its
> licensors. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to limit any rights
> granted under open source licenses applicable to the Product and to
> corresponding source code versions of the Product.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/static/firefox/website-services-agreement.html
>
> It seems like this is against the whole purpose of GNU. So we shouldn't use
> these services.