On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:20:00PM +0100, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: > I'm very irritated and disappointed with your policy! Why? > As others have pointed out in this thread, Iceweasel is Firefox, but without the Mozilla branding. If you are irritated, then be irritated at Mozilla and write them and angry mail instead. Since you are obviously not aware of the reasons, I will give you a quick synopsis. On the Mozilla side: - using the Firefox name and logo requires the distributor to use the binaries provided by Mozilla - "security" support is provided by shipping new upstream releases, with zero help to distributors for backporting - Debian's permission to use the Firefox name (which was given previously) was revoked - the Firefox artwork is non-free On the Debian side: - Debian policy requires that all packages be built on Debian autobuilders (there are rare exceptions, but they are extremely few) - Debian policy requires not shipping new upstream versions in stable releases (that means backporting security fixes) - Debian requires that security updates come from the Debian security team (this creates a problem even if Debian acquiesced and released the binaries from mozilla, since the first security patch would create an unresolvable conflict) - Debian requires that everything shipped in main be DFSG compliant (the Mozilla Firefox artwork is not) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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