On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Robert Wolfe wrote to Alan Ianson:

 > IceWeasel is really firefox. The mozilla people told the debian 
 > people that they couldn't use their "brand" anymore so when they 
 > compile firefox on debian they "brand" it iceweasel.

 > I don't remember the whole story anymore but maybe it's better that 
 > way.. :)

 RW> Hmm, maybe I will have to check this story out :)  Sounds
 RW> interesting, like  the IB M-Microsoft thing with OS/2 :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Deb
ian_project

basically it comes down to the logos having restrictions on them which do not
fit with the free license policy of the debian project... they could not use
those logos because of this so they changed them... mozilla corporation did not
like this so debian has to rebrand the mozilla software to distribute it with
their changes... yes, even if it is a logo or picture that is all that is
changed...

)\/(ark