Does a repo provide IceCat?

[Bret Busby]

On 06/08/2015, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/08/2015, silver.bullet at zoho.com <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anybody know a PPA providing IceCat?
>>
>> For the time being I installed it from gnu.org and made a desktop file
>> [1].
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ralf
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser
>>
>
> Does that mean that icecat has superseded iceweasel?
>
> I understood that iceweasel was the free software (?) version of
> firefox, as iceape was to seamonkey.
>

I have just read the web page at the URL posted;
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

which includes

"
Origin of the name

The name “IceCat” was coined to show our relationship to the Mozilla
Firefox browser. Ice isn't Fire and a Cat isn't a Fox, so it is
clearly a different package (we don't want Mozilla blamed for our
mistakes, nor cause confusion with their trademarks), but is equally
clearly intimately related (of course nearly all of the work comes
from the Mozilla foundation effort, so we want to give credit).

The gNewSense BurningDog browser and the Debian IceWeasel browser are
similarly derived from Firefox, also with the intent of being free
software. Technically, however, these projects are maintained entirely
independently of IceCat. (Previously, this GNU browser project was
also named IceWeasel, but that proved confusing.)

About GNU and the GNU Philosophy

The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like
operating system which is free software—free as in freedom, not price.
Its principal sponsor is the Free Software Foundation.

The free software philosophy is the root and motivation of the
guidelines and goals of the whole free software movement, a worldwide
community.
"

Does this mean that the "Free Software Foundation" has dissociated
itself, and, distanced itself, from Debian?

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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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