[OpenIndiana-discuss] Just get Pale Moon

[Chris]

On 2021-01-12 04:56, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> De-obfuscation the situation:
> 
> The core of this problem is the branding issue. It's the legacy left from 
> Mozilla.
> 
> Pale Moon has granted atenian200 the rights to use their branding. But he 
> has to
> follow their branding guide line, too. This mean: using the libraries 
> shipped with
> Pale Moon itself.
> 
> atenian200 want to add the Pale Moon package with OFFICIAL BRANDING (since 
> he was
> granted this rights from Pale Moon).
> 
> We refused because we don't want to use libraries shipped with Pale Moon.
> 
> Personal issues of us with the Pale Moon issues. Combining the the BSDs' bad
> experience: hater gonna hate. We rejected Pale Moon.
> 
> The solution is very simple:
> 
> We build Pale Moon with official branding off, just these two lines:
> 
> ac_add_options --disable-official-branding
> export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=0
> 
> Check: http://developer.palemoon.org/build/sunos/
> 
> We are free to do whatever we want now.
> 
> But: making Pale Moon works with the system libraries is problematic. It's
> technical issues, not personal preferences issues.
> 
> Then: just build Pale Moon with their own shipped libraries!
> 
> So, what's different? OFFICIAL BRANDING! Just that.
> 
> The key is: Just have Official branding disable. We could ship Pale Moon 
> with the
> encumbered repo.
> 
> The only thing prevent us is: our own HATRED for the Pale Moon developers.
> 
> Put this aside. Then we have a working browser!
In my last attempt, it wasn't quite that simple. If you use the "official" 
libs.
you run into potential conflicts with system libs. If that's not enough; you, 
as
an OS distributor are responsible for your user' safety -- vulnerabilities 
found
in the libs for which you have no control (you depend on upstream). Not 
usually
an acceptable situation. This also means that if you *do* choose to depend 
upon
them. You must rebuild once they've been fixed. Also not ideal.
> 
> Pale Moon will not replace Firefox or installed by default. We just give the 
> users
> another option when we are currently stuck with porting Firefox.
> 
> But nothing stops Pale Moon from continuing on the encumbered repo even 
> after we
> have Firefox ported.
> 
> It's all depends on what we choose to do.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 

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