-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 03/04/2015 07:06 PM, Ed Ender wrote: > Personally, I would rather stay away from the world of Google. > Although I have no real say in the matter. That IMO would be a > security breach, considering their ties to government agencies. > > Just my 2 cents! > > Ed > > -----Original Message----- From: "T.J. Duchene" > [t.j.duch...@gmail.com] Date: 03/04/2015 06:14 PM To: > dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [Dng] Plan for Devuan to use > Mozilla products as is > > > 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. > > t.j. > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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