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Under New Agreement, Debian™ to Include Firefox Suite

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday April 02 2016, @03:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the seems-very-one-sided dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

According to Softpedia:

Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), publisher of Debian™ GNU/Linux and Debian™ GNU/kFreeBSD™ has reached an agreement in its longstanding trade dress dispute with the Mozilla Corporation, publisher of the Firefox application suite. Under the agreement, SPI will pay an undisclosed sum to the Mozilla Corp. and periodically turn over marketing data regarding SPI's customers. In exchange, SPI will receive a nonexclusive license to distribute the Firefox suite as part of SPI's Debian™ products.

SPI agreed not to alter the branding of the Firefox suite; not to disable its Pocket integration; not to alter the suite's anti-phishing or search features, which are sponsored by Mozilla Corp. partners; and to discontinue its competing Iceweasel Web suite, which is based on Mozilla Corp. software licensed under a previous accord. The Firefox suite will be provided to SPI's Debian™ customers as an automatic update via the firm's Dpkg℠ service. The updates will go out over the course of the next three months to groups of randomly selected customers, in order to provide what SPI calls "a superior upgrade experience."

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  • (Score: 1) by itn on Saturday April 02 2016, @06:24PM

    by itn (4865) on Saturday April 02 2016, @06:24PM (#326181)

    None of those explain why resuming the Firefox branding is now acceptable.

    In the bug issue they simply said the branding issue is not relevant anymore. Part of this is the Firefox logo which was released under a suitable license.

    While written in a trollish / inflammatory way, nothing in the article is actually false.

    What? Maybe not in the Softpedia article, but it has nothing to do with the summary in SN. Nothing in any of the links given by TFS or by me (in my comment above) gives support to any of the claims in the summary. Because the summary here is an April Fool's joke...