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Firefox is not free libre software. This is why it doesn't ship on free Gnu/Linux distributions, they prefer alternatives such as Iceweasel or Chromium instead

Firefox is not free libre software. This is why it doesn't ship on free Gnu/Linux distributions, they prefer alternatives such as Iceweasel or Chromium instead (free libre versions of Firefox and Chrome that don't come with any proprietary logos, mpg4 codecs, pdf readers etc).

anaphor 13y ago
That's misleading, Firefox itself is free software, they just recommend some non-free addons "While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons." https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
__david__ 13y ago
Iceweasel is not really much of a fork, just a s/Firefox/Iceweasel/g over every file in the project because Debian considers Mozilla's branding requirements to conflict with their free software guidelines (DFSG).