[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux 013rc1 is out!

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 10/15/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:09:46 +0200, André Detsch <detsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > FireFox 1.5.0.4
> First of all this is an old version (there's an update recipe), second
> it's called Firefox not FireFox, and lastly we have to consider how
> Mozilla Corp. would look at this. We still haven't got permission to
> redistribute their browser (or their email client, Thunderbird) with
> official branding and if one looks at how they handles it now one will not
> be able to use the name alone, without the branding, which means that we
> _have_ to have permission, alternatively use their official build,
> repackaged.
>
> Otoh, the source is released as GPL and if one make all the effort
> possible (except patching) to remove the name "Firefox" from the
> application which one gets from compiling the code one will fail. The
> binary would still be called firefox, which, to me, means that Mozilla has
> by releasing the code as GPL lost it's right to the name. Maybe I'm way
> out of line here, but this issue should be solved before we release 013.

I agree this issue should be solved before 013. I asked André about
this yesterday, and he told me the package included is their official
build (I don't want to quote him wrongly here, but I believe the idea
he got is that we'd have no problems by using the official build).

In my personal opinion, if we can ship the official build branded as
"Firefox" then I think it's the way to go for 013. If we can't ship
our own builds (in the package repository) labeled as such, then we
could handle this issue separately. But that's just my opinion.

I followed the Firefox thread here -- I appreciate the research you've
guys been doing on the issue and I think there's people here more
informed than me on the details, so I think I'm not the best person to
make the final call on this problem.

-- Hisham