2006/12/27, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>:
> > Can anybody explain, why FreeBSD uses the official user-agent-string
> > and NetBSD does not (BonEcho/2.0) ?
> >
> > "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061203
> > Firefox/2.0"
>
> They received permission? (I ask ... and now I search for answer ...)
>
> Quickly looking at FreeBSD's ports/www/firefox I see:
>
> --enable-official-branding
>
> I looked at their CVS history and see revision 1.112 has:
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> - Mozilla license team has approved the FreeBSD Gnome team to
>   use official branding for firefox and thunderbird [1]
>   o Add  --enable-official-branding to mozconfig
>   o Install official thunderbird/firefox icon as default.xpm icon
> ...
>
> References:
>         http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/licensing.html [1]
>         http://people.freebsd.org/~ahze/firefox_thunderbird-approved.txt
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> See the second URL above.
>

Thanks a lot for the information.

The follow-up question is: Does NetBSD have some sort of team to deal
with license issues and is NetBSD interested in receiving an approval
aswell for Firefox/Thunderbird to use the official branding from
Mozilla and if not, why not ?

Zafer.