On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:52, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 21:38 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:33, Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... > > > > > > Do you see a difference? > > > > > > You could have cancelled and looked into why that is. iceweasel > > > provides firefox because it *is* firefox. There is no functional > > > difference between firefox and iceweasel. You're making a > > > mountain out of a molehill. > > > > Here's the part I don't get. Even though I'm making a living as a > > programmer, I'm self taught and have missed a lot -- and I don't > > know C or C++. I've tried to make sense of the listing of what was > > taken out of Firefox to make Iceweasel, yet I found it hard to > > follow. > > > > Just what was taken out as non-free if it doesn't effect > > functionality? If it doesn't make a difference, why is it in there? > > Or have all the non-free things been replaced by free code > > already? > > The whole thing comes down to this. ... > They only way to fix this issue was to: > 1. Get the Mozilla Foundation to compromise on its stance, > allowing quid-pro-quo from before, They said it'll never happen, > ever. They were "protecting" the Firefox Branding > 2. Get Debian to compromise, making exceptions to its policy on > DFSG. Thereby compromising the whole foundation that Debian > is built upon. Possibly forcing hundreds of other compromises of the > DFSG. > 3. "Fork" the Firefox source, to be changed to the point where > it was no longer defying the Mozilla Foundation's terms, but also > complying with the Debian Free Software Guide(DFSG). > > I'll bet you can guess which one the maintainer(s) was(were) forced > to choose. > > Any questions?
Okay, I get that and thanks for the rundown, but at one point I saw a list of differences between Firefox and Iceweasel, including a long list of things that were removed from Iceweasel. A lot of it looked technical, but it did seem to indicate there was a lot more than a logo and name that were removed. When people refer to the non-free code, is it ONLY to the logo and name? It just seemed like the list of changes was a lot longer than that. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]