Re: question about firefox and iceweasel
Joe Hart wrote:
> 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.
>
time line of the "discussion" can be found here:
http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/debzilla.html
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