Re: Packaging a free Firefox

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Nils Gillmann writes:

> Christopher Lemmer Webber transcribed 1.2K bytes:
>> Nils Gillmann writes:
>> 
>> > Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes:
>> >> Hello Katherine,
>> >> 
>> >> Katherine Cox-Buday <address@hidden> skribis:
>> >> 
>> >> > E.g. I've seen several people in this thread mention they had already,
>> >> > or were trying to, package Firefox (myself included). Had there been an
>> >> > official non-libre channel, this work might not have been duplicated.
>> >> 
>> >> There will never be an “official” non-libre channel in that Guix as a
>> >> project will not provide such a channel.
>> >> 
>> >> Now, Firefox *is* free software, so there’s could be an official
>> >> “firefox” package, but in essence, it would have to incorporate pretty
>> >> much the same changes that IceCat provides.
>> >> 
>> >> I wonder why IceCat is based on an ESR, and what it would take to have
>> >> it follow Firefox releases more closely.
>> >
>> > I am not involved or speaking for Icecat, but ESR is moving slower than
>> > Firefox "master" channel. This alone is good enough to base on it for
>> > long-term support when you are a downstream vendor such as Torbrowser,
>> > Icecat, or a simple company running a site-specific Firefox.
>> 
>> It would be really nice to be able to have tor browser bundle in GuixSD.
>
> TL;DR is we can have it and I will pick up work on it again pretty soon.
> (We had the idea for a custom browser based on Torbrowser, so I have a
> requirement beyond simply using it.)
>
> Under the conditions (for packaging torbrowser) I talked about with 
> Torbrowser-project
> it is okay to ship it fully branded. I will have to get back to them as soon
> as I am past the current bug and got it building.

Hey, that's great news!  Thank you :)