FS#1843 - mozilla-firefox violates mozilla foundation rules

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 26 November 2004, 10:39 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Friday, 26 November 2004, 13:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The mozilla-firefox package is built using --enable-official-branding, which is not allowed unless specific authorization is given by the mozilla foundation. This option is in firefox to mark a firefox build as an official build done by the mozilla foundation.
I doubt Archlinux has permission to mark the package with this official branding.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 27 November 2004, 13:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Friday, 26 November 2004, 13:04 GMT
Do you have a link to documentation about this? I did this to close a couple bugs on people being confused why the icons and help->about were different from their previous distro's build... I did a search at that time and couldn't find any information about this being a restricted option.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 27 November 2004, 13:19 GMT
Hmm, it seems everybody is building it with those flags. The help option says you need permission from mozilla. I can't really find anymore where I found stuff about this, but since every distro is building with this option, this bug can be ignored. I don't really think everybody is having permission from mozilla to build with these flags found in almost every mozilla/firefox build howto:
export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL="1" &&
export BUILD_OFFICIAL="1"
These two options do the same as the --enable-officie-branding stuff in configure or mozconfig.

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