Subject Fwd: Use of the name "Firebird"
Author Helen Borrie
>Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:31:35 +1100
>To: Chris Hofmann <chofmann@...>
>From: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
>Subject: Use of the name "Firebird"
>
>To Chris Hofmann <chofmann@...>
> Director of Engineering,
> Mozilla Foundation
>
>Dear Chris,
>On reading this article:
>
>http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/12/10/1812211.shtml?tid=151
>
>it is clear that you, as an officer of the Mozilla organisation, are
>freely using the name "Firebird" to refer to the Mozilla lightweight
>browser. We remind you most strongly of the undertaking by mozilla.org to
>refrain from using this name in public and to make all efforts to remove
>all references to "Firebird" except as an internal codename, as "Mozilla
>Firebird". This was supposed to have been effected by the middle of
>August, 2003.
>
>Far from observing any sign of action in this regard, we continue to see
>members of the Mozilla organisation publicly using the name as if you had
>established some right to it.
>
>The undertaking to correct Mozilla's wrongful adoption of the name of
>another open source project is not being honoured. We urge you to take
>positive action to correct the situation.
>
>Helen Borrie
>Member, Firebird Project Admin, http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird
>Public Officer, FirebirdSQL Foundation Inc.,
>http://firebirdsql.org/ff/foundation
>