Nelson B wrote:
> Wei Shao wrote:
>
> > I have done a customized Firefox browser for a research project. I am
> > hoping to post the report of this project to this group soon.
> >
> > Two questions,
> >
> > 1. If I want to provide my customized Firefox for people to download
> > and try, how shall I do that? Right now, I have the dist/bin Folder on
> > my local windows machine.   I built Firefox with the free Visual C++
> > 2005 compiler.
>
> Your first question is how to package a customized Firefox build.
> I doubt that anyone here in the crypto newsgroup knows the answer to that.
> I suggest you ask that in the mozilla.dev.apps.firefox group.
>
> > 2. I have a self-signed CA for demo purpose, how can I include that in
> > the CA list by default.
>
> As I understand it (I am not a lawyer), because of the legal necessity
> of protecting trademarks, mozilla has a policy that if you change certain
> things about the product, you may not distribute it with the Firefox
> brand name and logos.  The built-in list of root CAs is one of things that
> you may not change and still use the trademarks, as I understand it.
> I think this is the reason that one group markets their variant of
> FireFox under the name "IceApe".
>
> More information at
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ca-certificates/policy.html
> and the pages to which it links, such as
> http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/
>
> You may e-mail a question or trademark use request to licensing at mozilla.org

Thanks for the message. I give up on this idea. Besides the legal
implications, I think most security conscience people will find it
scary anyway. 

> 
> -- 
> Nelson B

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