Hi all, As a front-end developer I always feel it's painful to build whole B2G, especially if I just want to test my app on the real device with new Gecko. However, as I've heard, because of the legal issue, Mozilla can't distribute builds which includes the private firmwares. So although with PVT server and as a MoCo employee, I can fetch the new images from it and thus complete the whole process without building, for other front-end developers that we promised to bring Web to the mobile, it's still a terrible obstacle.
Recently I've noticed that it seems possible to build Gecko for specific device (Flame) *without* extracting any private files from the device. And since it includes no private firmwares, anyone obeys the MPL should be able to distribute it (or not?). Moreover, since our PVT server already provides "Gecko" build, I think if the build is clean (without any private parts as the version I've built), it should be legal to distribute that part. So that would be the cure for those whom never build something complicated more than a website backend, if it's possible to host a nightly version Gecko for those available devices. Moreover, for those relatively open hardware, like Raspberry Pi, we may even provide a full image to flash to let front-end developers could really bring the similar experiences to our platform. Is this possible to provide such builds? Or any other issues prevent us to do that? -- Greg Weng http://about.me/snowmantw Understand y f = f [ y f ] ; lose last remaining non-major friend -- Anonymous _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
