Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox? (original) (raw)

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Subject: Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?
From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@connexer.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:11:08 -0400
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 10:06:21PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:

Hi,

I've read on several blogs that IceWeasel will be based on a fork of FireFox and not just on vanilla FireFox. Is this true and if yes, why?

I hope this will not result in a flamewar, I'm just interested in the reasons if an why we prefer the fork over the original source as base for our IceWeasel.

It will be a fork in the following senses:

no inclusion of trademarked Mozilla artowrk
backporting of security fixes to declared stable version

Beyond that, they will be basically identical.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

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