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Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related



On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Roughly, Mozilla said that they had to have the last word on anything
> going out under their copyright.  Debian said taht they had to have
> the last word on any packages going into the official repositories.
> These two were incompatible.

> So they agreed to differ.  Debian agreed not to use the
> copyrighted/trademarked names: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey etc..
> They were removed from all the software packages going into Debian.
> (Well, in theory at least!  There were/are traces taht got missed.)
> Debian uses the Open Source Mozilla applications, but calls them
> Iceweasel, Icedove, IceApe etc.

Oh I see. And people use both of them!


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