On 18/10/11 03:59, John F. Morse wrote:

> Vinothan Darael Shankar wrote:

>> On 17/10/11 19:20, The Wizard of Oz wrote:

>>  

>>>     The big boss says stick with Firefox.

>>>     

>> Someone should probably point out:  Iceweasel is essentially Firefox

>> sans Mozilla branding - it was created (AIUI; ICBW) because Debian

>> needed to ship some patches that weren't suitable for merging upstream,

>> and Firefox's licence didn't permit doing so while it retained the

>> branding of the official release.

>>   

> Debian stated they didn't have time to get Mozilla's "permission"

> (blessing?) when security issues were discovered, and Mozilla didn't

> want their branding to be used unless they had approved the changes.

<actual explanation snipped>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project

Thanks for that.  Good to have the right information.

Vin