rbw wrote:
> >
> I haven't had time to figure out why but "Iceweasel" (AKA Freezilla per 
> some GPL3 beef)

It has nothing to do with copyright. The name change has to do with
trademark, one of the other sides of Intellectual Property.

The Mozilla Foundation won't allow *ANYONE* and that means *anyone* use
the Mozilla (including Firefox) logo, artwork, or name unless they meet
certain criteria. One of these includes allowing Mozilla Foundation to
sign off on any patch applied to the source code.

Debian did not find that situation acceptable. That would require the
Debian Security Team to wait until Mozilla Foundation blessed off any
backports of security problems before Debian users could get a patch.

Solution: Remove the Mozilla Foundation trademarks and licensed artwork.

-john


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