Mozilla are now 'officially' aware of Timberwolf, reported on Amiga.org.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59545

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/List_of_Mozilla-Based_Applications

Last edited by djrikki on 25-Oct-2011 at 06:36 PM.

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great :)

@djrikki

That's awesome news, Amiga software to be recognised outside of the community is always a good thing.

Spread the word.

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@djrikki

Great! Can't wait for it to finish and see a MorphOS version.

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Hahahahahhaahhahaha, Quote/Joke of the day.

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That´s fantastic!!!!!

@djrikki

What is a joke? That I'd like to see it finished?

Or that I'd like to see a MorphOS version? Isn't FireFox open source

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Remember, this a Hyp^H^H^HFriedens projekt !! Wiggling out of the requirement to releases the sources was the 1st and top priority!!

Thats why they can't call it Firefox.


[Edit: This is simply untrue. Spreading malicious lies in this manner has earned you a warning.]

Last edited by _Steve_ on 26-Oct-2011 at 07:58 PM.

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Yeah it sux. Now that FAB is on the OS4 team you would think they would help with Morph port..

@redrumloa

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redrumloa wrote: Or that I'd like to see a MorphOS version? Isn't FireFox open source

Yes. FireFox is open.

Timberwolf is 'based' on FireFox so the OS4 specific parts are not.

However, if the developers give up working on it then they are to
give the source to those that pick up the flag.

I think thats how it works.

Similar to Mac OSX - BSD or Fedora - RedHat Enterprise.

@djrikki
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Mozilla are now 'officially' aware of Timberwolf, reported on Amiga.org.

I don't know if an entry on a wiki page that anyone can edit can be considered official, but I'm really more curious about Thunderwolf.

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@djrikki

Nice to see the brothers' hard work recognised Great work guys...

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Kronos wrote: Remember, this a Hyp^H^H^HFriedens projekt !! Wiggling out of the requirement to releases the sources was the 1st and top priority!! Thats why they can't call it Firefox.

That's simply not true. Changing the name of the project does not alter the license that the code is held under. There are other reasons that the name was changed. One such reason can be explored by looking at the history behind Iceweasel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project#Origins_of_the_issue_and_of_the_Iceweasel_name

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But is it open source or not?. This is one thing of the licence i don't understand, so if anyone can explain it would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!!

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But is it open source or not?. This is one thing of the licence i don't understand, so if anyone can explain it would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!

sure. the key thing to understand is that open source software is not necessarily 'free' software. the mozilla foundation allows anyone to use or modify firefox code under the terms of the MPL. this allows you to use the code as you will, but anything that is modified in the original source needs to be made available as source; this does not, however, include anything which is derivative. anything you might do in addition to the existing code base, rather than merely modifying it, does not necessarily need to be republished as source. the new, derivative, work does need to include mention of MPL-licensed code, though.

commercial products based on MPL-licensed code are fairly common. nothing the friedens are doing is contrary -- either in spirit or in fact -- of the MPL. if they want to make available their code, they can; but as it's probably going to be using OS4-specific APIs, it wouldn't be that much help to the MOS or AROS developers in any case. if anyone is serious in wanting access to said code to provide a port for other platforms, then go ahead and contact them directly. they are always open and friendly to people who are genuine and honest, rather than folks just trying to troll.

as for the name, that's a little different. they couldn't call it firefox without the permission of the mozilla foundation; so it's not the friedens which 'don't want to call it firefox' but rather the mozilla foundation doesn't want anyone calling their firefox-derived products 'firefox' without their involvement and say-so.

hope this helps a little. the various GPL and GPL-like licenses out there are confusing sometimes, i'd agree.

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I don't know if an entry on a wiki page that anyone can edit can be considered official, but I'm really more curious about Thunderwolf.

always quality work, jorkany.



but next time, you might not want to change the page using your screen name.

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Thunderwolf Email client for AmigaOS5 Based on Thunderbird

Wow! AmigaOS5 is on the way. Great news.

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@djrikki

I noticed it mentions Thunderwolf?????? (a port of Thunderbird) is this really in development at the moment and are the Friedens heading this up?

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I noticed it mentions Thunderwolf?????? (a port of Thunderbird) is this really in development at the moment and are the Friedens heading this up?

please tell me you're joking. you did realize that was posted by @jorkany to prove that anyone can edit the page in question, right?

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Wow! AmigaOS5 is on the way. Great news.

No any Troll can edit this pages if they create a account.

AmigaOS5 is not on the way any time soon, next is AmigaOS4.2, and then OS4.3 and then OS4.4 and so on. If there is 1 sub version a year then OS5 is ready in 2020.

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