Re: [gNewSense-users] What is the firefox problem?

[Anthony Patarini]

"BTW, ianal = ?"

I Am Not A Lawyer. A common disclaimer used to indicate that a person's 
comments should not be taken as legal advice.

As for the Firefox issue, the problem from what I recall is that the 
Mozilla Foundation has a problem with "unofficial" versions of Firefox 
using the name Firefox. (The same is true of Thunderbird and probably 
their other products.) This comes into play when Debian (and other 
organizations) patch Firefox to make it work better with their specific 
system setup, and when Debian (or again others) roll out updates to 
Firefox before (or that are different from the ones) Mozilla puts out. 
For Debian, this is a problem because having to wait for a specific 
vendor to approve of an update (for example, a security update) before a 
patch can be distributed falls afoul of their view of Free Software. So, 
all Debian IceWeasel is at the moment (last I heard) is just Firefox 
with Mozilla trademarked material ripped out. GNU IceWeasel, on the 
other hand, is a modified Firefox that, like Debian's, doesn't contain 
Mozilla trademarked material, but also does not point to nonfree 
components like Firefox does and has a few privacy enhancements. See the 
respective websites for more details. They can be found via google.