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what does this mean for Debian's icedove? Could it just be replaced by IceCat?

• aruggirello 12y ago
  icedove is the unbranded version of thunderbird; you probably meant iceweasel :) I think Debian's reasons for forking Firefox & Thunderbird is more related to trademarks and licensing issues, while it seems IceCat is more focused on privacy concerns. All in all I'm sure Debian will consider IceCat though.
  • currysausage 12y ago
    > All in all I'm sure Debian will consider IceCat though. Just to clarify, IceCat is around for almost a decade now. Actually, IceCat was called IceWeasel before the Debian project decided to call their own Firefox fork IceWeasel. [1] So no, I don't believe Debian will consider GNU IceCat. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat#Origins_of_the_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat#Origins_of_the_name
  • edwintorok 12y ago
    Hmm I must've read the announcement too fast because I thought: GNUzilla = web browser = Firefox/Iceweasel Icecat = email client = Thunderbird/Icedove So ... looking forward for thunderbird/icedove's equivalent from GNU :)
    • LukeShu 12y ago
      That was originally the plan, but I don't believe that's been true since Loic Duros replaced Giuseppe Scrivano as the maintainer.