On 16/09/10 13:11, Bret Busby wrote:
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
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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.
Mozilla Corp. (as opposed to Mozilla Foundation) took offence at:-
- Debian backporting security fixes to older versions of
Firefox/Iceweasel
- *at Debian allowing users to change search engines and make
other modifications*
, and insisted the use of the Firefox name is permitted only if
accompanied by its logo, icons, and other artwork (which is in
breach of the Debian Free Software Guidlines).
Long story short, icons, artwork, logo, and icons changed in the
Debian version (Icecat is another story).
So - reduced funtionality in Iceweasel - emphatically no. In fact
Iceweasel has more functionality than Firefox.
Feel free to look it up for yourself - the references are on this
page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel
Cheers
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