[oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

[Jeremy Andrews]

This is an interesting discussion, and I did want to address some 
additional comments...

Actually, the restrictions they have are on the use of the official 
branding. They are saying you have to build it a specific way if you 
want to use their official branding, and they have very specific 
requirements to get permission to use official branding that I've 
managed to comply with thus far. However, if you were to use alternative 
branding like IceWeasel-UXP does:

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:project:iceweasel-uxp

Then you don't have to follow those requirements.

I assumed since you weren't interested in Pale Moon, you weren't 
interested in anything like this at all, but I heard someone talk about 
issues with Rust and then someone else mention IceWeasel which reminded 
me there was an alternative. The big advantages of the UXP platform are 
that it supports more modern websites than older Firefox does, doesn't 
have Rust or telemetry, and still supports XUL extensions and NPAPI plugins.

The irony of all this is, the reason Pale Moon has the branding 
restrictions is because they haven't tested any system libraries other 
than their own internal ones, they don't want to provide support for 
custom builds, and they're worried about their browser getting a bad 
reputation for being buggy due to being built in an unsupported 
configuration. But now their browser apparently has a bad reputation 
because of their licensing restrictions.