On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 19:52, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:57, Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> wrote:On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:You say Moz (?) but, if you refer to Seamonkey, that is diifferent (from what I understand) to iceape, which has, from what I understand, some of the Mozilla stuff that makes Mozilla software what it is, removed.The only thing that should be removed is the name.I may be wrong in my understanding, but I believe that some of the functionality was removed, in the modifications of the Mozilla products to create the Debian products iceape and iceweasel, as the Mozilla products apparently did not comply with the Debian philosophy and thence Mozilla products in their Mozilla forms were no longer available via the Debian repositories.If by "some of the functionality was removed", you mean the standard Firefox and SeaMonkey Icons, then sure. That's about it AFAIK. Trouble with the icon licensing (and some issues with carrying patches, I think) led to trouble with the trademarks, which led to the name change.
I understood that some of the functionality (subroutines/modules/whatever) did not comply with the Debian philosophy, and so were removed, to make the resultant applications compliant with the Debian philosophy.
I do not remember the details - it was some years ago, I think, when Seamonkey and Firefox were removed from the Debian repositories or removed from a (then) upcoming version of Debian, to be replaced by iceape and iceweasel.
One of the Debian project people, or, if the Debian Project has Project Historians (people who can track historical events/changes in the way the Debian project does its thing) may know more of this, and could better advise regarding this.
Icons are not functionality - they are only widow dressing. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................