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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by mattnewton on Friday September 09, 2022 @07:09PM (#32785976)
Is that really true? I thought the foundation bought things from the corporation, like the right to use the Mozilla brand, and did so using donation dollars.
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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by MichaelCollins on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:14PM (#32786406)
It's the other way around; Mozilla Foundation owns the trademark and Mozilla Corporation pays the Foundation to use it. From their 2020 financial statement (https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2020/mozilla-fdn-202...):

> The Corporation and MZLA pay license fees per trademark license agreements with the Foundation. In January 2020, the trademark license agreement was amended between the Corporation and the Foundation, whereby, the Corporation will pay the Foundation a royalty payment based on the Corporation’s annual revenue. The amount of royalties owed are calculated using a tiered rate structure, but at no time will the royalty payment go below the lesser of $11.0 million or six (6)% of search revenue. The Corporation incurred $16.3 million and $15.9 million in license fees to the Foundation in 2020 and 2019, respectively.

> The trademark license agreement between MZLA and the Foundation stipulates that MZLA will pay the Foundation a royalty payment based upon the revenue generated from certain products. MZLA paid $63,787 and $0 in license fees to the Foundation in 2020 and 2019, respectively.

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