On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 19:52, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:57, Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
You say Moz (?) but, if you refer to Seamonkey, that is diifferent (from
what I understand) to iceape, which has, from what I understand, some of
the
Mozilla stuff that makes Mozilla software what it is, removed.
The only thing that should be removed is the name.
I may be wrong in my understanding, but I believe that some of the
functionality was removed, in the modifications of the Mozilla products to
create the Debian products iceape and iceweasel, as the Mozilla products
apparently did not comply with the Debian philosophy and thence Mozilla
products in their Mozilla forms were no longer available via the Debian
repositories.
If by "some of the functionality was removed", you mean the standard Firefox
and SeaMonkey Icons, then sure. That's about it AFAIK. Trouble with the icon
licensing (and some issues with carrying patches, I think) led to trouble with
the trademarks, which led to the name change.
I understood that some of the functionality
(subroutines/modules/whatever) did not comply with the Debian
philosophy, and so were removed, to make the resultant applications
compliant with the Debian philosophy.
I do not remember the details - it was some years ago, I think, when
Seamonkey and Firefox were removed from the Debian repositories or
removed from a (then) upcoming version of Debian, to be replaced by
iceape and iceweasel.
One of the Debian project people, or, if the Debian Project has Project
Historians (people who can track historical events/changes in the way
the Debian project does its thing) may know more of this, and could
better advise regarding this.
Icons are not functionality - they are only widow dressing.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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