On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:22:53 +0200, Lech Karol Pawłaszek wrote: > On Monday 16 October 2006 00:07, Jacobo Tarrio wrote: >> El domingo, 15 de octubre de 2006 a las 22:06:21 +0200, Bastian Venthur >> escribía: >> > I've read on several blogs that IceWeasel will be based on a fork of >> > FireFox and not just on vanilla FireFox. Is this true and if yes, >> > why? >> >> AIUI, it will be vanilla Firefox minus logo, minus "Firefox" name, >> plus >> Debian patches. >> >> The fact that GNU chose the name "Iceweasel" for their own fork of >> Firefox >> is extremely unfortunate :-( > > Why it is unfortunate? Mozilla Corporation doesn't want (Debian) to use > firefox name without the artwork. And Debian can't distribute the > artwork since it is DFSG-nonfree.
It is unfortunate because of the user confusion that it will cause. IMO, the firefox package should not be renamed to iceweasel. The package 'iceweasel' should be a package of the Gnuzilla project of the same name. > Kind regards -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
