Subject: Re: Firefox 1.5 package
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/12/2005 09:52:56
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:39:54AM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> This is how I did it in wip/firefox15:
>
> ### Enable Official mozilla.org Branding
> ### Note that you cannot distribute builds with Official Branding
> ### without permission of the Mozilla Foundation.
> ### See http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/
> .if !empty(PKG_OPTIONS:Mofficial-mozilla-branding)
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-official-branding
> RESTRICTED= "Cannot redistribute builds with Official Branding"
> NO_BIN_ON_CDROM= ${RESTRICTED}
> NO_BIN_ON_FTP= ${RESTRICTED}
> .endif
>
> The restriction is that we can not *redistribute* officially-branded
> binaries, but users may perfectly enable this flag for their own use.
> Why wouldn't we offer it as an option then, to make it easy for our
> users? As long as we/they don't redistribute the resulting binaries.
I forgot to mention: this option was of course disabled by default, such
that the bulk builds would produce redistributable binaries (without the
official branding), as they do now.
Geert