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firefox -> iceweasel package is probably not legal



I notice that recently you have complied with Mozilla's request to not
use their trademarks for your browser packages. However, you can't
also use their trademark to switch users to a competing product.
("bait-and-switch") The same trademark issues are why there is not a
package called openoffice. It must be called openoffice.org.

For instance, if Best Buy provided a packaged product called "firefox"
that instead had IE or a nearly indistinguishable competing product
(iceweasel) this would also be trademark infringement.

Trying to install firefox should be the same as openoffice:

root@debian:~# apt-get install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package firefox
root@debian:~#

Enjoy,
Jeff



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