From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: wrapping up the Newmoon Browser package Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:48:52 +0000 Message-ID: <20180323174852.gyuuxezxlyc2euwj@abyayala> References: <20180320134737.6jb7ux6hx24zyxh6@abyayala> <878tai4tez.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36371) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezQnw-0004Db-Bw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:48:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezQnu-0000m2-MH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:48:39 -0400 Received: from [2a01:4f8:1c0c:7ad0::1] (port=57686 helo=conspiracy.of.n0.is) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ezQnu-0000l7-Ar for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:48:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878tai4tez.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.6K bytes: > Hi, > > ng0 writes: > > > I need some final input on topics I'm more liberal about. > > Many many moons ago I started the work on Pale Moon. This > > package has now moved into New Moon, which is what we are > > allowed to redistribute with modifications (Pale Moon without > > branding). > > Do you know if the New Moon browser supports EME? If so, it would need > to be disabled somehow. The GNU FSDG specifically prohibits browsers > that support EME. I have no idea if it has support for EME. I will check next month. > > Issue 1 I addressed so far: The default homepage (after first > > start and in general default) called a website which is questionable > > in my opion: https://palemoon.start.me > > > > I have patched the default home page to be gnu.org and gnu.org/s/guix > > > > > > Next, can I keep the default bookmarks? They are: > > - https://www.palemoon.org > > - http://forum.palemoon.org/index.php > > - https://www.palemoon.org/faq.shtml > > - https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml > > I suspect that the default home page and bookmarks will need to be > changed. Otherwise, we would be steering users towards obtaining the > Pale Moon browser, whose binary distribution is restricted by a nonfree > license. See > > > Finally, about:addons let's you install Addons from 2 repositories: > > Pale Moon Add-ons Site and Mozilla Add-ons Site. > > "Search all add-ons" queries the 2 repositories and lets you install > > add-ons from the repositories. > > We definitely need to avoid steering users toward the Mozilla Add-ons > Site, or any other add-on site that is not committed to including only > free software. We could instead steer users toward the list of free > add-ons that's used by GNU IceCat. Have you read my follow-up Emails with more details? I'm curious if due to the issues mentioned there this is still necessary from the GNU view on things. I have no strong opinion on keeping the addons. > Thanks for working on it. > > Mark > -- A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 https://n0.is