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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Licensing issues. Debian takes such things very seriously, as perhaps more people should.
Agreed. I think it is the Firefox guys who take things too seriously.

In February 2006, Mike Connor, representing the Mozilla Corporation, wrote to Debian and informed them that Mozilla did not consider the way in which Debian was using the Firefox name to be acceptable. Connor confirmed that the Mozilla Corporation was revoking the previous agreement with Debian which allowed them to use the Firefox name. Further messages from Mike Connor clarified Mozilla's current policies: "Yes, if you are shipping a browser called Firefox, we should be signing off on every deviation from what we ship."; and "If you are going to use the Firefox name, you must also use the rest of the branding."
This wasn't because the browser was any different. No, this was because Debian couldn't use the Firefox artwork due to an incompatible license.
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