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Re: Bikeshedding a name for pkgsrc's unbranded Firefox



On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 11:37:25AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> <individual_hat>
> 
> pkgsrc should and does patch out phone-home and other bad behavior.
> Mozilla is far from righteous - as an example, official firefox has DRM.
> 
> I don't want us to end up not wanting to fix such bugs in order to move
> outside a trademark license.
> 
> </>

Yes, but all of those (or most?) would not work anyway, e.g. firefox
can not reasonably check for binary updates of systems/architectures
that upstream does not distribute anyway - so I'd call those system
integration changes :-)

Martin


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