On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > I _hope_ (as in, it fits with our principles, I think it was the case, > but I am not closely involved) that one thing we do require is for the > phones to be unlockable. So people can, at least theoretically, install > other builds of Firefox OS, including versions with different locales, > after they have purchased the phone. Of course, this would require > CyanogenMod-like engineering because the phones will have proprietary > drivers in them.
Having to install a new native code image to get localized strings seems like an overkill. However, I'm curious about other cases: * Will users be able to retain the vendor-supplied Gonk layer (in order to retain proprietary drivers while exercising software freedom higher up in the stack) and install a self-built Gecko layer on top of it? * Will users who have a self-built Gonk layer be able to subscribe to a Mozilla-provided Gecko layer update channel (i.e. run Mozilla-provided higher layers on top of an unofficial device adaptation)? -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
