On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 04:15:00 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 08:37:29AM +0200, Irrwahn wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 02:04:08 -0400 (EDT), Peter Olson wrote:
>>> On June 14, 2016 at 1:43 AM Irrwahn <irrwahn@???> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:37:59 -0400 (EDT), Peter Olson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is why there is Iceweasel instead of Firefox.
>>>>
>>>> Not anymore. It's plain "firefox" from Ascii (=Stretch) on.
>>>
>>> In Devuan Jessie, if I type firefox at the command prompt, it starts Iceweasel.
>>
>> From Debian Stretch (= Devuan Ascii) on there is no more
>> Iceweasel, but just Firefox and Firefox-ESR.
>
> Yes, it seems Debian signed some kind of deal with Mozilla that made
> that possible. We might have to continue calling it iceweasel unless
> we sign a similar deal.

No deal, AIUI.

> Or have they rerally changed the licence and trademark terms so that
> isn't necessaary any more?

At least that's what I gather from:

>> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/

Quote thereof:
| The Mozilla trademark guidelines have morphed considerably over
| the years and, in particular, they have become far more open.
| The logos and product names are no longer subject to separate
| terms, and the current guidelines only state that "making
| significant functional changes" prohibits a downstream project
| from using the Mozilla trademarks.

IANAL, but to me that sounds like the rebranding that was
| to work around incompatibilities between the Debian Free Software
| Guidelines (DFSG), the Mozilla trademark-usage policy, and the
| licenses of the Mozilla logos.
(again quoted from said article) is simply no longer necessary.

Regards
Urban