[Liverpool] Iceweasel

[Michael Dorrington]

On 11/08/11 11:35, Bob Ham wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 09:08 +0100, Andrew Williams wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:50:18AM +0100, Bob Ham wrote:
>>> I'm a little unclear as to how they could have reacted differently; they
>>> don't seem to have had much of a choice.  What could they have done
>>> instead of removing Mozilla's branding?
>>
>> I remember (vaugely) that Mozilla did extend a license to to use the branding
>> to Debian but they rejected it, it seemed (to me) a bit more PR flag waving
>> than actual problem solving.
> 
> It taken nearly two years but I just realised what the problem is
> here :-)  Mozilla provided a license to Debian but not to authors of
> derivatives (or even other builders).  That means if a Debian user built
> the source code for Debian's version of Firefox, they would not have the
> right to distribute the resulting binaries.
> 
> Debian did the appropriate thing in forking and de-branding Firefox.
> Debian users now have the right to build Iceweasel and distribute
> binaries without requiring a license from Mozilla.
> 
> Bob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project

Mike.

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