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Date:      Wed, 07 Feb 2018 05:25:42 +0000
From:      blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Matt A. Tobin" <email@mattatobin.com>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, portmgr@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation
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On Wed, Feb 7, 2018, 07:22 Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Ok I will start working on this.
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225717
>
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018, at 17:07, Matt A. Tobin wrote:
> > Alright, if that is the case, then yeah you can just disable branding. If
> > you run into troubles, i can help on this.. Or if you wanna come up with
> > new branding I can also help with this.
> >
> > Peace.
> >
> >
> > *Matt A. Tobin*
> > @mattatobin <http://twitter.com/mattatobin>; on Twitter
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 5:49 PM, Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 6, 2018, at 16:36, Matt A. Tobin wrote:
> > > > Greentings,
> > > >
> > > > It would be awesome if you could build it closer to our official
> build
> > > > configuration. Something more akin to
> > > > http://developer.palemoon.org/Developer_Guide:Build_
> > > Instructions/Pale_Moon/Linux#head:Mozconfig_Files
> > > >
> > > > Patches to anywhere in the codebase to accommodate our in-tree code
> for
> > > BSD
> > > > systems to get a positive build is totally permitted. If that means
> > > libvpx
> > > > or nss needs an in-tree patch then that is totally fine.
> > > >
> > > > In fact, if you do the patches in such a way as it won't interfere
> with
> > > > other platforms via proper ifdef we would gladly accept them up the
> line.
> > > > We were close to having this in the past but the contributor would
> not
> > > make
> > > > clean patches that didn't fundamentally bust other platforms and we
> had
> > > to
> > > > back it all out.
> > > >
> > > > We do want to work with platforms and projects but we also don't
> want our
> > > > rights to be trampled on any more than you would want yours to be.
> > > Frankly,
> > > > we didn't want the OpenBSD people to remove the port either but that
> was
> > > > their decision to escalate a situation beyond reason over a couple of
> > > > perhaps poor phrasing choices.
> > > >
> > > > The Mozilla Public License is clear in its provisions and grants and
> > > > protections for covered code. The Pale Moon Redistribution License
> > > actually
> > > > extends rights and permissions beyond what the MPL allows but has
> its own
> > > > conditions that need to be met. None of these are insane or out of
> line
> > > and
> > > > are there so that users of the software know they are getting what
> the
> > > name
> > > > and logo claim it to be.
> > > >
> > > > However, given all that if you guys are going to follow suit and not
> > > going
> > > > to follow point 8 of the Redist License you ask under point 10 for
> > > special
> > > > permission to use trademarked branding and perhaps find a happy
> medium
> > > > between which libs are absolutely required to satisfy the Pale Moon
> > > feature
> > > > set and what ones can get by with using system libs.
> > > >
> > > > The decision is yours. Please make it a good one.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > [ I do not speak on behalf of the project ]
> > >
> > > Two problems:
> > >
> > > 1) You're not the upstream for any of these codebases: sqlite, nspr,
> nss,
> > > png, icu... As such there will be no effort made to submit you
> patches. You
> > > are welcome to retrieve our patches from the FreeBSD ports tree and
> apply
> > > them to your codebase if you so choose. Many man hours were spent
> adjusting
> > > these projects to work with FreeBSD's expectations; spending more to
> > > appease your private forks of these projects is unconscionable.
> > >
> > > 2) Shared system libraries exist for a reason and we intend to use
> them.
> > >
> > > 3) It will be beyond tedious to track down which vulnerabilities your
> > > browser is shipping. A CVE in nss or sqlite3 will not show up
> automatically
> > > for Palemoon in the results of our "pkg audit" tool unless someone has
> the
> > > ambition to peek into your codebase and see which extra copy of those
> > > libraries are being used.
> > >
> > >  Building with your libraries is the wrong way to ship this software
> for
> > > our users.
> > >
> > > Do we need to disable your branding only or also stop using the name?
> If
> > > both, we will likely remove the port and suggest users upgrade to
> > > www/waterfox if they want an alternative to Firefox.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >   Mark Felder
> > >   ports-secteam & portmgr member
> > >   feld@FreeBSD.org
> > >
>
>
> --
>   Mark Felder
>   ports-secteam & portmgr member
>   feld@FreeBSD.org
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Close source mentality in the open source, color me surprised; not.

I say in about six months new moon will be more performant than the old
moon.

>



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