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Besides the links to nonfree software, Pale Moon's trademark policy goes a step too far rendering it nonfree. | Besides the links to nonfree software, Pale Moon's trademark policy goes a step too far rendering it nonfree. | ||
You can read FSF's position [https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2011-08/msg00014.html stated in 2011], and that position has not changed. [[User:Craigt|Craigt]] ([[User talk:Craigt|talk]]) 12:28, 16 December 2022 (EST) | You can read FSF's position [https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2011-08/msg00014.html stated in 2011], and that position has not changed. [[User:Craigt|Craigt]] ([[User talk:Craigt|talk]]) 12:28, 16 December 2022 (EST) | ||
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free software that you can distribute without these restrictions. | free software that you can distribute without these restrictions. | ||
That's exactly what GNU IceCat and friends do." | That's exactly what GNU IceCat and friends do." | ||
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| + | Pale Moon links to nonfree software, like its [http://www.palemoon.org/flashtool.shtml Flash Protected Mode tool]. It also allows non-free extensions in its add-ons repository ([https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/aynayn-lookup-xul/ Example extension, which is currently non-free]). [[User:Jobbautista9|Job Bautista]] ([[User talk:Jobbautista9|talk]]) 05:42, 16 April 2021 (EDT) | ||
Revision as of 04:21, 22 December 2022
Trademark issue
Besides the links to nonfree software, Pale Moon's trademark policy goes a step too far rendering it nonfree. You can read FSF's position stated in 2011, and that position has not changed. Craigt (talk) 12:28, 16 December 2022 (EST)
"Unfortunately, such a restriction in a trademark license does make the software nonfree. As we've said in the past, a requirement that you rename the software when you modify it is fine -- but a requirement that you rename it before you distribute it commercially goes too far. Changing the name of a program should be straightforward enough for anybody who modifies the software (and if it isn't, that can be problematic too); the same isn't true for people who simply want to distribute it.
However, this doesn't affect the software license at all. So if you can do the work to remove the trademark from the program, you have free software that you can distribute without these restrictions. That's exactly what GNU IceCat and friends do."
Links to nonfree software
Pale Moon links to nonfree software, like its Flash Protected Mode tool. It also allows non-free extensions in its add-ons repository (Example extension, which is currently non-free). Job Bautista (talk) 05:42, 16 April 2021 (EDT)
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