On 03/04/2015 01:25 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I guess it is very likely that the first release of Devuan will use >the re-branded Mozilla products. > >As far as I understood, the main reason for the re-branding is the >Mozilla license that does not comply with DSFG >(https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines). Or the other >way around? Sorry, I don't really understand licensing. > >Is Devuan going to use the exact same guideline? If not,is there any >plan for Devuan to use Mozilla products as is in the future, >especially Firefox and Thunderbird?
If I recall correctly - which I may not be - the problem was that if Debian wanted to use the Firefox name and logo, then Firefox must approve every patch in advance, even security updates. Debian said that was/is ridiculous so they were not allowed to use the logo or the name for any Mozilla software.
Quite frankly, I agree with that stance. It is stupid. But it is also understandable. Mozilla does not want to be blamed for a bad patch they had nothing to do with.
If I might offer an alternative suggestion? I'd rather see Devuan default to Chromium with NAPI support than use Firefox, period. As for Thunderbird, I see no reason to use Mozilla's version. Unless things have changed since I last heard, it undermaintained anyway. Mozilla was going to sunset the entire project, but outcry stop them. As far as I know, they update it with new versions of XUL but do little else.
I don't think it has had new features not related to keeping up with Firefox in over five years.
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