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Re:Why does Debian change software? by winternewt on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:04AM (#44061654)
I wouldn't think the Firefox license allows them to do that. I thought only binaries built by Mozilla could use the FF brand.
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by rmccue on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:07AM (#44061681)
Indeed, Mozilla only recently allowed Debian to use the brand for their modified version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_tradema...
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by jefftk on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:13AM (#44062901)
Recently? It was almost a decade ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by akdev1l on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:20AM (#44061799)
That’s the reason for a while we had IceWeasel
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