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Re: Bikeshedding a name for pkgsrc's unbranded Firefox




To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>

Subject: Re: Bikeshedding a name for pkgsrc's unbranded Firefox

From: Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>

Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 11:37:25 -0400


Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> writes:

>     - your rules do not differentiate between system integration
>       changes, changes of default behaviour, and changes needed to
>       support other systems not properly integrated by the mozilla
>       foundation

<individual_hat>

pkgsrc should and does patch out phone-home and other bad behavior.
Mozilla is far from righteous - as an example, official firefox has DRM.

I don't want us to end up not wanting to fix such bugs in order to move
outside a trademark license.

</>


Therefore, I think we should call it

  TrademarkFox

and the mail client

  TrademarkBird

and so on for anything else from Mozilla.


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