On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Brandon Lozza <brandon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
what about iceweasel or icefox insteadOn 7/27/10, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 04:06 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > According to this two year-old post, it's possible to build Firefox
> > with gstreamer support:
> >
> > http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/04/firefox-html5-video-with-gstreamer.html
> >
> >
> > Dunno if any of that is true today.
> >
> > There's precedent for Firefox using system components instead of
> > bundled ones. Firefox already uses hunspell instead of its own bundled
> > dictionary, for spell checking. It makes sense for Firefox to use
> > gstreamer, instead of any bundled codecs.
>
>
> The blog post talks about a non upstreamed patch and Firefox doesn't use
> Gstreamer at all now. It isn't just a matter of a bundled vs system
> components at this point. Non upstreamed patches are not a option for
> Firefox for trademark reasons as well.
>
>
> Rahul
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the trademark problem makes it non free
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Then that would make most Linux distributions non-free, including Fedora. So, meh. Fedora also has a policy of trying not to add patches to their own packages, so it jives just fine with Mozilla's trademark policy.
Plus, those names suck, keep the Mozilla Firefox name.
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