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Re: Firefox 2.0 user-agent weirdness: msg#00301

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Subject: Re: Firefox 2.0 user-agent weirdness

2006/12/27, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Can anybody explain, why FreeBSD uses the official user-agent-string
> and NetBSD does not (BonEcho/2.0) ?
>
> "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061203
> Firefox/2.0"

They received permission? (I ask ... and now I search for answer ...)

Quickly looking at FreeBSD's ports/www/firefox I see:

--enable-official-branding

I looked at their CVS history and see revision 1.112 has:

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- Mozilla license team has approved the FreeBSD Gnome team to
use official branding for firefox and thunderbird [1]
o Add --enable-official-branding to mozconfig
o Install official thunderbird/firefox icon as default.xpm icon
...

References:
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/licensing.html [1]
http://people.freebsd.org/~ahze/firefox_thunderbird-approved.txt
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

See the second URL above.


Thanks a lot for the information.

The follow-up question is: Does NetBSD have some sort of team to deal
with license issues and is NetBSD interested in receiving an approval
aswell for Firefox/Thunderbird to use the official branding from
Mozilla and if not, why not ?

Zafer.



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