Is Ubuntu going to adapt Ice Weasel?

Markus Lutzer m.lutzer at gmx.de
Sat Oct 7 22:21:17 BST 2006


Michael V. De Palatis schrieb:
> On 10/7/06, Mitch Golden <mgolden at mitchgolden.com> wrote:
>> I have to admit to complete confusion regarding this firefox issue.  There
>> is *nothing* non-free about Firefox.  The code is licensed under a free
>> license, and you can do whatever you want with it.
> 
> Yeah, but the logo isn't. That's why Ubuntu and Debian both used a
> different logo.

Ok, but to use another logo is another topic and not a reason to use Ice
Weasel instead of Firefox.


>> The only thing you can't do is make changes to it *and then call it
>> Firefox*.  This is perfectly reasonable and totally within the spirit of
>> free software licenses.  Someone should please tell me which one of the
>> GPL's four freedoms it controvenes.  (The same is true for Linux code
>> itself, BTW, see eg this site: http://www.linuxmark.org/ )
>>
>> This whole thing is a tempest in a teapot.  Firefox should be distributed
>> by Ubuntu - and it should be the real Firefox, logo and all.
>>
>>    - Mitch Golden
>>
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