Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Michal Nowak via oi-dev
On 12/11/19 08:37 PM, Matt A. Tobin wrote: BUT, that isn't what has happened this day. No, this day did not turn out as hoped for by the young programmer. Something very different happened. He, and by extension, all of us who work on the Unified XUL Platform and the projects, Pale Moon

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Matt A. Tobin wrote: So here we are, I am writing to all of you because someone I have come to know and who worked very hard to bring his chosen software to his chosen OS for all to use and enjoy has been crushed. What does this say about the Open Source community and

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Matt A. Tobin
The Pale Moon redistribution license is very clear http://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml . However, Jeremy Andrews approached us to facilitate (re)introduction of Modern Solaris (and flavors there of) support back into the Unified XUL Platform. I understand how poor choice of words in the

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Volker A. Brandt wrote: Till Wegmüller writes: I concur. Some politeness goes a long way. This problem with the license requirements however stems from firefox originally. Only that in firefox'es case they fought with the debian community and lost. It seems like the

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Michal Nowak via oi-dev
On 12/11/19 12:51 PM, Jeremy Andrews wrote: This is an interesting discussion, and I did want to address some additional comments... Actually, the restrictions they have are on the use of the official branding. They are saying you have to build it a specific way if you want to use their

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Jeremy Andrews
This is an interesting discussion, and I did want to address some additional comments... Actually, the restrictions they have are on the use of the official branding. They are saying you have to build it a specific way if you want to use their official branding, and they have very specific

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Till Wegmüller writes: > I concur. Some politeness goes a long way. This problem with the license > requirements however stems from firefox originally. Only that in > firefox'es case they fought with the debian community and lost. It seems > like the Palemoon community needs to have the same

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Till Wegmüller
I concur. Some politeness goes a long way. This problem with the license requirements however stems from firefox originally. Only that in firefox'es case they fought with the debian community and lost. It seems like the Palemoon community needs to have the same experience. Sadly Anyhow.

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi. I was a bit of uncomfortable to point to this issue, but as others already mention this, let this be settled. We will not distribute Pale Moon via OI infrastructure. If someone has free cycles, I'd advice him to look at FF component, which needs some love. Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov,

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Adam Števko
Thanks Michal for pointing that out. I wasn’t aware of that. Additional reason to avoid it then :) > On 11 Dec 2019, at 09:22, Michal Nowak via oi-dev > wrote: > > On 12/11/19 07:38 AM, Jeremy Andrews wrote: >> I ported UXP to illumos and Solaris recently, and I got them to take the >> code

Re: [oi-dev] Where should SPARC go?

2019-12-11 Thread Michal Nowak via oi-dev
Thanks for your answers, Gary. One point of clarification below: On 11/27/19 03:58 PM, Gary Mills wrote: * we don't test that changes build the less work on SPARC I don't understand this condition. "It's not required to test update (PR) on SPARC for it to be merged." Is this wording

Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?

2019-12-11 Thread Michal Nowak via oi-dev
On 12/11/19 07:38 AM, Jeremy Andrews wrote: I ported UXP to illumos and Solaris recently, and I got them to take the code upstream. I'm pretty anxious about the process now honestly, and really want everything to work out. There are a few things I'm worried about, though. 1. I'm not very