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It's called Fennec because it is not from Mozilla and includes patches to removs propietary bits (which are not allowed on F-Droid). https://gitlab.com/relan/f
by SushiHippie 2y ago
It's called Fennec because it is not from Mozilla and includes patches to removs propietary bits (which are not allowed on F-Droid).
https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild
And fennec was the 'internal' name for firefox on android from mozilla.
- rakoo 2y agoEDIT: I replied to the wrong message, sorry
- mananaysiempre 2y ago> because it is not from Mozilla and includes patches to remove propietary bits More specifically, because Mozilla won’t allow you to do that and still call it Firefox. (Except if you’re Debian, apparently Debian now gets an unwritten free pass after they demonstrated their willingness to protest that with Iceweasel. And either F-Droid is not big enough for that, Mozilla is not the same as it was back then, or both.)
- 1oooqooq 2y agofdroid have a non political policy. arch is the same. they won't even patch things nobody like (just document on the wiki and keep building upstream with the least amount of changes from the code repo. even if the upstream maintainers themselves dont build like that) so, if firefox build builds as fenec by default, fennec it is.