Icedove???

[Peter Holsberg]

"Icedove is a debranded version of Thunderbird, a powerful, graphical,
easy to configure email client. Its features include advanced search, a
junk filter, phishing protection, an address book, the ability to add
extensions, and downloadable themes to alter the appearance of the client. "

Why is there a "debranded version of Thunderbird"?

[Bob Henson]

Most likely just to keep the "we must keep Linux pure and free from the
taint of commerce" nerds happy. The fact that the whole shooting match
is paid for by some form of commerce or another seems to escape them.
They don't understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

--
Bob - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK

You know you're old when an "allnighter" means you didn't have to go to
the loo once!

[WaltS]

[excerpt quote]
Mozilla Corporation software rebranded by the Debian project deals with
a 2006 software branding dispute and its resolution, between the Mozilla
Corporation and the Debian Project.

The branding issue developed when Mike Connor, representing the Mozilla
Corporation, requested that the Debian Project comply with Mozilla
standards for use of the Thunderbird trademark when redistributing the
Thunderbird software.[1][2] At issue were modifications not approved by
the Mozilla Foundation, when the name for the software remained the same.
[/quote]

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00328.html

Ref:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project>

--
openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit) KDE 4.10.2
Thunderbird Daily 24.0a1
I abhor GG.

[brian]

On 06/15/2013 11:54 AM, Peter Holsberg wrote:
> "Icedove is a debranded version of Thunderbird, a powerful, graphical,
> easy to configure email client. Its features include advanced search, a
> junk filter, phishing protection, an address book, the ability to add
> extensions, and downloadable themes to alter the appearance of the client. "
>
> Why is there a "debranded version of Thunderbird"?

Because Debian has an extremely puritan attitude towards packages in
its distributions, there can be NO copyrighted material of any sort in
them, not even logos and graphics.

FYI, Icedove (which I use) is a thinly disguised version of the long
term support version of Thunderbird. The current version in the Debian
7.0 ('Wheezy') repositories is 10.0.12.


Brian.