Comment 534 for bug 269656

Creak wrote:
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I understood that they did few Debian-specific
> modifications. But as long as they modified Firefox, they can't reuse the
> name.
> If I'm right until then, why don't they send their modifications to Mozilla?
> Mozilla refused?
>
I wasn't part of that decision, so I'm only repeating what I heard,
which is that Debian simply preferred not to be obliged to discuss their
changes with Mozilla. I don't think there was any specific change which
Debian wanted and Mozilla felt was problematic, it was more that the
idea of having to maintain an ongoing relationship was not attractive to
the specific developers involved at Debian. And that's a perfectly
reasonable position, too.

> Imagine you have an Ubuntu-specific feature to add to Firefox. Mozilla
> doesn't want it for some reason... What's your choice? Abandon your
> modification or change the name?
>
Yes, pretty much. But so far we've always managed to agree. We always
have the right and the ability to switch to the abrowser package which
we've created, but we prefer to engage as long as possible, we benefit
from the Firefox brand and I hope Mozilla benefits from the exposure we
bring.

Mark