On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Brandon Lozza <bran...@pwnage.ca> wrote:
> On 7/27/10, Rahul Sundaram <methe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 07/28/2010 04:06 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > According to this two year-old post, it's possible to build Firefox > > > with gstreamer support: > > > > > > > http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/04/firefox-html5-video-with-gstreamer.html > > > > > > > > > Dunno if any of that is true today. > > > > > > There's precedent for Firefox using system components instead of > > > bundled ones. Firefox already uses hunspell instead of its own bundled > > > dictionary, for spell checking. It makes sense for Firefox to use > > > gstreamer, instead of any bundled codecs. > > > > > > The blog post talks about a non upstreamed patch and Firefox doesn't use > > Gstreamer at all now. It isn't just a matter of a bundled vs system > > components at this point. Non upstreamed patches are not a option for > > Firefox for trademark reasons as well. > > > > > > Rahul > > > > -- > > devel mailing list > > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > what about iceweasel or icefox instead > > the trademark problem makes it non free > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Then that would make most Linux distributions non-free, including Fedora. So, meh. Fedora also has a policy of trying not to add patches to their own packages, so it jives just fine with Mozilla's trademark policy. Plus, those names suck, keep the Mozilla Firefox name.
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