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The sole purpose of Iceweasel is to not be subject to any restrictions (mozilla approval of changes) that may come with distributing trademarked "Firefox" softw
by pigeons 11y ago
The sole purpose of Iceweasel is to not be subject to any restrictions (mozilla approval of changes) that may come with distributing trademarked "Firefox" software.
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- im3w1l 11y agoI looked into it further, and know I see where my confusion came from. [Debian] Iceweasel is a fork [from Firefox] with the following purpose : backporting of security fixes to declared Debian stable version. no inclusion of trademarked Mozilla artwork (because of #1 above) Beyond that, they will be basically identical. (quoting Roberto C. Sanchez post in debian-devel mailing list) But there was another Iceweasel, GNU Iceweasel. To avoid confusion with Debian Iceweasel, it has been renamed to GNU Icecat. GNU IceCat, formerly known as GNU IceWeasel,[3] is a free software rebranding of the Mozilla Firefox web browser distributed by the GNU Project. It is compatible with Linux, Windows, Android and OS X.[4] The GNU Project keeps IceCat in synchronization with upstream development of Firefox while removing all trademarked artwork. It also maintains a large list of free software plugins. In addition, it features a few security features not found in the mainline Firefox browser. This article is about Debian's Iceweasel, which is why my comment was wrong. https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat