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Firefox isn't GPL?

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glibgil7y ago· 2 in thread

Why would there be a Mozilla Public License if not to be used for Firefox?

I see. Are there any major differences in the two licences? I'm interested why the OP specifically mentioned GPL forks of Firefox.

giancarlostoro7y ago

It's GPL compatible, and I wrote GPL instead of GNU. There's IceWeasel which is a Debian fork of Firefox to debrand it from all the Firefox trademarks and logos.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat

They basically use scripts that build IceCat apparently from the original source code. I'm guessing they diff against FireFox.

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