[gobolinux-users] Re: Firefox up to date

[Jonas Karlsson]

2006/8/1, Laurent Pelecq <laurent.pelecq at soleil.org>:
> Le Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:49:24 -0300, "Hisham Muhammad"
> <hisham.hm at gmail.com> a dit :
> > On 7/28/06, Sean Russell <gobo at ser1.net> wrote:
> > > Is there any reason that non-OpenSource software can't have a recipe in
> > > Gobo?  Assuming that it is free as in "free beer", then where's the
> > > restriction?  Or is this a different discussion, about dogma?
> >
> > It's more a practical problem, since Compile is about, well, compiling
> > things, and most non-open-source software, well, has no sources
> > available. And there are, more often than not, licensing restrictions
> > such as "you have to show this 'I agree' message" and things like
> > that.
>
> If I summarize what have been said:
> - MJ Ray would like to have only free software when possible. But
>  nobody has proposed to compile firefox so far.
> - Sean prefers software to be available whether it is free or not.
> - Jonas have written Firefox recipe for 1.0.7 but gave up since official
>  logo and name cannot be used when compiling from source.
>
To be honest I have created recieps for all new versions of Firefox.
But since that recipe creates an officially branded copy (as I like to
have the fox around the globe), and we are not allowed to distribute
such copies (yet), I haven't made it public. Since the discussion is
brought up and people seem to want the "Community edition" of firefox
I've "fixed" (just as with a pet ;) ) the recipe and created a package
from the same. I've kept entries for enabling the branded icons for
those that want to compile firefox. One also need to move/remove the
branding patch in the recipe dir. A tip is to keep this recipe and
only make NewVersion on it when a new version is available.
Links to the recipe and the package is at the bottom.

>
> Don't you think it would be better not to distribute firefox at all
> than to disbribute an old version.
>
Agreeable.

-- 
/Jonas

http://karlsson.sytes.net/gobolinux/RecipeStore/Firefox--1.5.0.5--recipe.tar.bz2
http://karlsson.sytes.net/gobolinux/PackageStore/Firefox--1.5.0.5--i686.tar.bz2