Hi, has someone looked into Pale Moon browser before? I have a first functional package definition for Guix, but it has obvious issues with trademarks or at least their distribution guidelines. The website is behind Cloudflare, so I have to link to an archived page instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20161116213017/https://www.palemoon.org/licensing.shtml These are their redistribution guidelines: https://web.archive.org/web/20170619230207/http://www.palemoon.org:80/redist.shtml
We have the option to build from source, so we could skip the binary distribution part and their really unfortunate guidelines. However this https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2660 seems to indicate that it would be just fine with official branding disabled. But mostly I'm interested in the thought experiment of what could be altered to make it compatible to the GNU FSDG at runtime. The most obvious part is: their default homepage of the web browser includes cookies and links to various SaaS such as Faceboogle (they are using the service "start.me"). They exclude Google from the default search engines and default to Duckduckgo. You can't use the mozilla addon store with it unless you point it to it directly (not via browser internals), but they link to it in the "about:addons" page as a choice between "Pale Moon Addons Site" and "Mozilla Addons Site". Both open as websites, not in-browser mode. Mozilla could be patched away. Somewhere I had more information but it wasn't organized on paper or in a git and got lost. Codecs could be another problem as far as I can guess. Anything I've missed? -- ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://n0is.noblogs.org/my-keys https://www.infotropique.org https://krosos.org
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