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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