If this product had retained its name and logo Mozilla would have still remained associated with it, but it seems feared they had little influence on Debian development. Essentially a Firefox 2 in Debian would have been around a lot longer than the Firefox 2 released by Mozilla, with its code more and more removed from the original Firefox 2. In addition Mozilla asked, if Debian retained the Firefox brand, for all patches to be run by and authorised by Mozilla, as Debian specific patches would alter the code of the product Mozilla had originally released. To do otherwise was deemed a trademark violation. The newly created Mozilla Corporation, as opposed to the Mozilla Foundation who had previously seemingly condoned use of the Firefox name with a different logo (Deer Park), did not like the Debian policy of backporting security patches to their old releases in the stable branch rather than upgrading Firefox to the new version, and was also of the opinion that to use the name Firefox would also require the use of the trademarked icon and logo (see bugreport opened by Mozilla, status: serious). During the development cycle and shortly before Debian 4.0 'Etch' was to go into freeze Mozilla asked the Debian project to review their use of the Firefox brand and logo "before you put out another long-lived release". Iceweasel is the renamed Debian version of Firefox.
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