Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > Iceweasel is already free, isn't it? Yes, but provides a mix of free and non-free add-ons, because uses the Mozilla Firefox add-ons site.
>> It is (so far the only) part of Gnuzilla, the umbrella project >> analogous to Mozilla. The base Mozilla code is free but it supports >> and suggests using non-free plugins and other modules. GNU IceCat is >> completely free, and suggests only free plugins to users. > > It's not about freedom, it's about limiting it for the users. Users > must be free to install non-free extensions and plug-ins if they want > to. There is no limitation. Users can install non-free plugins if they want. They can go to Firefox website and download them. The only difference is that Gnu IceCat don't provide these non-free plugins at its add-ons manager and then, users know that IceCat plugins are all free. -- Javier Sancho Fernández - http://www.jsancho.org/ Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation - http://www.fsf.org/ Contra el DRM - http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPH5TQG912Z4rFYcZ0p=rzzg2afiykvyphwnvkzgpep-j9a...@mail.gmail.com
