![]() ![]() You must comply with the directive or you must disable official branding for your builds. I will definitely be avoiding pale moon after reading that link.įirst, the link opens with the following line: We do not allow system libs to be used with official branding because it deviates from official configuration. Just be prepared to acknowledge that the information you're responding to is very likely way out of date. That's fine, I respond to old links on occasion, too. Copyright is not a factor here, as the code is under the permissive Mozilla licence (which is vastly superior to the viral GPL), but the brand is required to be protected in order for the trademark owner to keep the branding. A company can selectively enforce a copyright, but they can't selectively enforce a trademark. Trademarks are required to be protected by the trademark owner, whereas copyrights are not. Debian had to change the name of it's own altered Firefox (IceWeasel) for the same reason - do you hate Mozilla for that?ĮDIT: To reiterate, I'm talking about Trademark Law. But you can't change it and still call it Pale Moon, not without official permission. Pale Moon is open and the code is free to anybody who wants to use it and call it something else. If you think that link provides a reason to avoid Pale Moon, then you're anti-opensource. If Pale Moon doesn't defend it's branding, then anyone can release any software and call it Pale Moon. But OpenBSD is actually changing the code, making the software something else, but still calling it Pale Moon as if it was official. ![]() If OpenBSD shipped with an official build of Pale Moon, there would be no issue. Because Mozilla needs to protect it's branding. IceWeasel is Firefox, literally, with the branding removed. That's why Debian ships with IceWeasel instead of Firefox. ![]() If you don't defend your branding, you lose protection for that branding. The take-down in that link is not draconian, it's required by trademark law. The benefits of using UC Browser HD 3.I don't want to use pale moon anymore after reading that. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Google Chrome? Mozilla Firefox advantages, disadvantages, review & features You can download Science online application on google play from this link: Science online Apps on Google Play Pale Moon is built upon the Unified XUL Platform (UXP), the cross-platform, multimedia application base with ancestry in Mozilla code, It includes the Goanna layout and rendering engine, the fork of Mozilla’s Gecko engine, and Moonchild Productions develops UXP alongside Pale Moon, UXP is the fork of the Firefox 52 ESR platform, created in 2017 to address the imminent death of XUL/XPCOM technology in the Firefox codebase. Pale Moon defaults to a customizable start page in cooperation with a, Pale Moon d efaults to DuckDuckGo as the search engine instead of Google or Yahoo!, Pale Moon u ses the IP-API service instead of Google’s for geolocation. Pale Moon supports NPAPI plugins indiscriminately, all of which are no longer supported by Firefox, Pale Moon r eplaces the Gecko browser engine with the Goanna fork, Pale Moon runs in single-process mode, but Firefox became a multi-process program. Pale Moon s upports “Complete Themes”, add-ons that can customize the entire UI of the browser, Firefox no longer supports this and retains limited options for UI customization. The official support for Windows XP ended with Pale Moon 25.0.0, Pale Moon for Android was a distinct development effort that is no longer maintained, First released in 2014, it was announced the following year that this Pale Moon variant would likely be abandoned due to lack of community involvement, The final release was 25.9.6. Moonchild Productions presents Pale Moon for modern iterations of the Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, An SSE2-capable processor is required to run the official Pale Moon releases, Pale Moon for macOS is supported in part by community contributions to the Pale Moon and UXP codebases, Since March 2021, macOS is no longer supported. Pale Moon’s source code is released under Mozilla Public License 2.0 except for parts relating to branding, To ensure quality, redistribution of the officially branded Pale Moon binaries is permissible under specific circumstances. You don’t require personal data (name, e-mail, telephone number, address, age, gender, ID, or similar) to download the binaries, The binaries are packaged in “bundle” archive formats. You can charge for redistribution rights of the browser binaries, yourself (you have no rights to it), You charge for a physical medium like a CD or DVD. ![]()
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