On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>wrote: > On 8 Sep 2009, at 21:19, Richard Fink wrote: > > I've just written about EOTL (or should we begin calling it CWT at this >> point?) at http://readableweb.com and was going to follow up in a few >> days >> with instructions for those looking to install Minefield and if those >> files >> are going south I'd really like to know. If they do disappear, are the >> ones >> I've downloaded redistributable? >> > > I'm not aware of any fundamental restrictions (though I am not a license > expert); There are no restrictions to redistributing Minefield --- since it doesn't use Firefox branding, trademark restrictions don't apply. Anyway, if Richard really wanted to he could apply the patch and build his own. however, I would <strong>STRONGLY</strong> discourage it. That was a purely > experimental build created using a (somewhat) quick-and-dirty patch to an > unstable development codebase. I'd hate to see it "promoted" as anything > more than that. I'm pretty confident that whatever Mozilla eventually > decides to ship will NOT be fully compatible with that experiment, so > spreading it around would be a recipe for confusion and frustration. > Indeed. Rob -- "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]
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