Hi.

Since 35, FF contains "Hello" formerly known as loop.
Apparently this also brough some static advertisement for Telefonica to FF,
i.e. the Telefonica logo is prominently shown when clicking on the Hello
button.

Most likely this logo is copyrighted and therefore (even if we'd be allowed
to distribute it, iceweasel wouldn't longer qualify for main.

Can someone with some more legal knowledge than I check this up?

Cheers,
Chris.

btw: Since we've recently had the proprietary blob compromise in Iceweasel 34
and since this also smells a bit after that... does anyone know whether Hello
inclues any such proprietary blobs/stuff, which we don't compile from source?
Or is the Telefonica branding just another step where Mozilla sells its FLOSS-
soul?

retitle  iceweasel: Telefonica loop/hello trademark / DP issues?
stop

Obviously this should have been DP (Debian Policy) and not DPL :D

[...]
It was not proprietary.  Sources are available:
https://github.com/cisco/openh264
It will compile from source.
No comment.

Sylvestre

Well that's off topic here, but sine a binary blob was downloaded (which
actually seems to not support reproducible builds), it could have been
largely just anything... no one can really tell easily whether it's the
same where one can see the sources on github...

Anyway,.. this ticket was rather about the IMHO unclear license status
of the telefonica logo =)


Cheers,
Chris.

src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.

Andreas