Re: question about firefox and iceweasel
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Zbigniew Wiech wrote:
>
> What is the reason to split Firefox and Iceweasel ? Technical
> differences or something with copyright ?
>
> What do I lose using "genuine" firefox from Mozilla ?
>
> regards
> zb
A bit of searching would lead you to the answer, but I will sum it up
for you.
Debian requires all software to meed the Debian Free Software Guidelines
(dsfg) to be included in the main repositories, since Firefox is free,
it used to be there. But recently, Mozilla trademarked the firefox logo
and added a requirement that the logo must be included in firefox
distributions. Since that violates the dfsg, Debian retorted by
"rebranding" the code and creating IceWeasel, IceDove, IceApe and
perhaps more. Those are the only ones I have encountered.
Note that I am not taking sides here, and do not want to start the
debate all over again. I am just reporting what happened.
Joe
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