[gobolinux-users] Firefox up to date

[Laurent Pelecq]

MJ Ray a écrit :
> Laurent Pelecq <laurent.pelecq at soleil.org> wrote: [...]
>> What would be the easiest way to make firefox available to all users as
>> soon as it is released? It is not necessary to compile it. Binaries
>> provided by mozilla work fine.
>>
>> It seems that there is no example of recipe used only to install
>> precompiled binaries even for free software.
>
> Unless something has changed, the binaries provided by mozilla
> are not free software, containing parts that are not under
> the GPL, LGPL or MPL but under licences like "do not modify".
> It is necessary to compile it, but last time I tried, it was
> quite fiddly to build a free software firefox-based browser.

It seems it has changed. I haven't seen any restriction. There is no
license file in precompiled binary package (which is bad). But
  http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq.html#free

Do you remember where you've read that initialy?

> I would guess that OpenOffice.org's recipe might be a binary download.

I haven't found this recipe in the recipe store. Isn't this a binary
package only?

Laurent