No, because Mozilla's trademark permission isn't sufficient. I'm surprised
Debian accepted it.
Citation: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006
"Patches which should be reported upstream to improve the product always
have been forward upstream by the Debian packagers. Mozilla agrees about
specific patches to facilitate the support of Iceweasel on architecture
supported by Debian or Debian-specific patches.
In case of derivatives of Debian, Firefox branding can be used as long
as the patches applied are in the same category as described above.
Ubuntu having a different packaging, this does not apply to that
distribution."
What they're saying is that the Debian Project has been forwarding patches to
upstream and continuing to do that is a prerequisite for this trademark
permission ("...as long
as the patches applied are in the same category as described above.")
It's good to send changes upstream for collaboration, but being required to
is different.
I am surprised that the Debian Project has agreed with that because it goes
against their own so-called Desert Island Test:
https://wiki.debian.org/DesertIslandTest because in the desert island example
they can no longer continue sending their changes upstream and so the
permission ends since it was conditioned on that.
In addition to Debian's Desert Island Test, being required to send changes
upstream also goes against the FSF's own Free Software Definition:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
