Re: Bikeshedding a name for pkgsrc's unbranded Firefox

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 05:57:37PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 11:37:25AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Therefore, I think we should call it
> > 
> >   TrademarkFox
> > 
> > and the mail client
> > 
> >   TrademarkBird
> > 
> > and so on for anything else from Mozilla.
> 
> I think any renaming doesn't help unless we call it something very
> strange like 
> 
> the-browser-we-are-not-allowed-to-call-firefox-due-to-mozilla-lawyers-stupidity
> 
> (and I'm not sure if that violates the firefox trademark).
> 
> Users will search for "firefox" and "thunderbird", anything renamed will not
> be found easily. So the easiest solution is to do nothing, the second
> best (but likely futile) is to try to get some official mozilla blessing
> and use the real names.

I would never propose changing the PKGNAME or its location in www/firefox.
This would also lose the CVS history.

I just don't want the window title to say "Nightly" for what is obviously
a stable version to experienced pkgsrc users but new users would interpret
as the experimental branch.