[arch-general] Can we use the "Firefox" name?

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 18:05 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
> I've a small dumb question.
> Why not use official branded version when there are many licensing
> problems? According to KISS and Arch philosophy (use upstream apps and
> not to patch unless necessary) this should be a good way.

There's no official build for x86_64, so any build from source we do for
that architecture is unofficial too. As for shipping branding, we can
get permission to release a branded version. This requires us to submit
any change in our PKGBUILD to mozilla for testing first to be able to
use the branding. This license is not transferrable, everyone who wants
to build and release a branded firefox is required to ask permission
from mozilla.
As for patches and KISS: We build our firefox in a way which is not
supported by mozilla corporation. We build firefox against as many as
possible system libraries. Firefox 3.0 will even depend on xulrunner on
our distribution in the near future (yes, this looks stupid, but it
shrinks package size for firefox, reduces build time for firefox and
saves on diskspace occupied by duplicate libraries for users who have
both installed).