AKFoerster wrote:
I am not really sure about the actual status of their packages.
I think you'll have to ask the package maintainer to be absolutely sure, but my understanding is that the published Firefox source is not buildable today without extensive patches or a trademark licence. There have been some attempts at finding agreeable terms on the debian-legal list (January and February 2005 most recently, Gervase Markham on the Mozilla Foundation side), promises that Mozilla will fix "white label" builds Real Soon Now and a couple of accusations that debian is being persecuted while groups like Fedora are allowed to infringe, among other things. Read the threads on http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/ for a balanced view.
Also as I understand it, the command names and some package names may remain unchanged because they are functional parts, as long as the description makes it clear that it's not the Mozilla build. This is similar to how "apt-get install ssh" actually got you OpenSSH installed on a debian system. If Mozilla Foundation try to enforce trademarks so that debian users can't find a free software edition by "apt-cache search firefox" then I would expect them to get some user backlash.