Iceweasel

Keith G keithishere2004 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 08:16:11 UTC 2006


AFAIK, Firefox is dual-licensed under MPL and GPL so there shouldn't be any
problems with the code.  I believe we can safely change the name and icons
(just call it "Web Browser" in true Gnome fashion).  If that's the case,
then there's no reason not to stick with the original Firefox codebase.

On 11/10/06, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > > On 10/11/06, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > >> > Looks like some people have already forked the "flaming vulpes"
> > >> browser some
> > >> > time ago. So here's Iceweasel for you:
> > >> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ It
> > >> > seems to have some added features over the original already.
> > >>
> > >> That project sounds scary.  Good luck to them.  They'll need it if
> they
> > >> are going to be maintaining a patchset against upstream with how
> quickly
> > >> it changes, and how regression prone any changes to the source are
> for
> > >> even seasoned gecko developers.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Didn't you get the memo?
> >
> > 8 times.
> >
>
> Can you fax us a signed copy?
>
> > > You are supposed to be the Fedora/RHEL
> > > contact and fixer up for this. We need a shipping product for the
> > > RHEL-5 release.
> >
> > Okay.  I don't agree that the fork is a good idea.  So, I'll just change
> > the name and icons.  Hm let's see...  Fire is not Ice and a Fox is not a
> > Weasel, so I'll call ours Firefox.
>
> You will need to get legal's opinion on that. We'll need a fax of that
> too.
>
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