Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > AP wrote: > > .......snip....... > > > It is really wonder to know that Debian doesn't include them because > > > of yet another war of license....whatever...If the actual code is > > > free, still such issues arise is a wonder to think....! I now think > > > that KMail must be a bit less resourceful than Thunderbird. > > > > Debian does include them. It renamed them to keep from violating > > mozilla's trademark. Firefox is iceweasel. Thunderbird is icedove. > > If Debian would include them from upstream as they are, they could call > them Firefox and Thunderbird as quasi every other Linux distro does. But > as already pointed out several times before, you are not allowed to > change a single thing, not even to stay away from Google for the > startpage for the first start. Thunderbird opens (at least opened) with > advertisings, when started for the very first time, what Debian software > opens with advertisings?
It was really about the nonfree logos. A painful situation. You can read all about it here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel And for deeper details... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622 Bob "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." -- Matt Groening
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