[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] RFP: User Agent Switcher

[Francesco Poli]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:47:16 +0200 Guido Günther wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:11:52PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > Hi Mozilla Extension Packaging Team!
> > 
> > I would like to point your attention to my RFP:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/522243
> > 
> > I would love to see the User Agent Switcher extension packaged and
> > included in Debian.
> > Is anyone interested in packaging it?
> > I hope so!
> http://www.geticeweasel.org/useragent/
> doesn't have any source code, just the xpi. For packing it'd be cleanest
> to have the upstream sources (instead of unpacking the xpi).

Wait a second, are you saying that the extension is distributed without
making source code available?   :-|

That would be an ugly surprise for me!  :-(

I didn't check (because I am not familiar with Firefox extensions or
with the programming language that is/should be used in order to write
them), but I thought the upstream author wanted the User Agent Switcher
to be Free Software.

Quoting from
http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/

| All the work on chrispederick.com is distributed for free under the
| terms of the GNU General Public License
[...]

Have you got in touch with Chris Pederick?
Have you already got confirmation that no source code is being made
available?


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