IceWeasel was created to work around trademark restrictions; Mozilla Corporation would not allow to Debian to use the trademarked names as long as Debian was di

IceWeasel was created to work around trademark restrictions; Mozilla Corporation would not allow to Debian to use the trademarked names as long as Debian was distributing the software with unapproved patches. So, Debian created their own branding in order to comply. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re... for more details.