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zacgarrett on Feb 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Debian Announces Position on Software Patents

see also: IceCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat

It is a version of Firefox with the branding removed as that portion has a copyright by Mozilla. This project started in 2004-2005.

I actually thought the policy in the original post has always been Debian's policy.

Flimm on Feb 20, 2012 [–]

Mozilla has trademark rights over the Firefox name and logo, and they license the logo's image file under a proprietary copyright license. It has nothing to do with patents, so the new policy does not affect that issue at all.

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