Author: Anto Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [Dng] Plan for Devuan to use Mozilla products as is
On 04/03/15 20:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: > As I understood it, the main problem was that the mozilla browser is
> open-source except for the mozilla icon/logo, which is copyright, and
> not under a free license. And the firefox name is trademarked, and they
> won't let you use the name without the icon. So Debian had to rebrand,
> which mozilla had no problem with.
>
> Debian *could* have used the firefox binary direct from Mozilla, but
> they compile everything from source, as it's the only way or them to be
> really sure that the executable matches the source code.
>
> -- hendrik