ze_dinosaur: Boy, Am I Sick of Renaming This Thing

"So the Mozilla Corporation has asked us to stop using the name 'Firefox' in our version of Firefox, unless we use the fox on a globe logo. We can't use the logo because its copyright license is not free. Even if somehow we could do this, they want to vet every patch we apply before we release a package called Firefox containing it.

"This puts us in a very difficult position. If there is no traction on the Mozilla side and Debian stands firm on the freeness of non-program files, I don't really see anyway around having to rename Firefox..."

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