Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Eelis
On 2014-05-15 22:02, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 16/05/14 05:53, Eelis wrote: On 2014-05-15 21:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: From the page you started this scare campaign with:- "Mozilla will distribute the sandbox alongside Firefox, and we are working on deterministic builds[*1] that will

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Eelis
On 2014-05-15 21:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 16/05/14 05:41, Eelis wrote: On 2014-05-15 21:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 16/05/14 05:20, Eelis wrote: Because there are no restrictions. No restrictions? That's correct. It's a sandbox. The sandbox restricts the close plugin. *You

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Eelis
On 2014-05-15 21:49, Scott Ferguson wrote: From the page you started this scare campaign with:- "Mozilla will distribute the sandbox alongside Firefox, and we are working on deterministic builds[*1] that will allow developers to use a sandbox compiled on their own machine with the CDM as an alte

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Eelis
On 2014-05-15 21:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 16/05/14 05:20, Eelis wrote: Because there are no restrictions. No restrictions? That's correct. It's a sandbox. The sandbox restricts the close plugin. *You* are only restricted in how you can *playback* media encrypted by the plugin

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Eelis
On 2014-05-15 20:35, Eelis wrote: On 2014-05-15 20:27, Scott Ferguson wrote: Mozilla will be shipping an Open Source sandbox for the plugin. Ah yes, that's also an interesting point, because one of the blog posts says: “Adobe and the content industry can audit our sandbox (as it is

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Eelis
On 2014-05-15 20:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 16/05/14 04:35, Eelis wrote: On 2014-05-15 20:27, Scott Ferguson wrote: Mozilla will be shipping an Open Source sandbox for the plugin. Ah yes, that's also an interesting point, because one of the blog posts says: “Adobe and the co

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Eelis
On 2014-05-15 20:27, Scott Ferguson wrote: Mozilla will be shipping an Open Source sandbox for the plugin. Ah yes, that's also an interesting point, because one of the blog posts says: “Adobe and the content industry can audit our sandbox (as it is open source) to assure themselves that w

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Eelis
Ah, thanks for the clarification! But now I'm confused; in what sense is it open source software if during runtime it starts downloading and running binary blobs from Adobe? :/ On 2014-05-15 20:09, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-15 19:51 +0200, Eelis wrote: I read[1] that Firefox will

Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Eelis
I read[1] that Firefox will start shipping parts for which they won't provide the source code (something to do with DRM..). Can I trust that Iceweasel will remain open source, or will I have to switch to Lynx if I want to use an open source browser? :) Cheers, Eelis [1]