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. >
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