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Author: dev1fanboy
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To: Steve Litt
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] package request
Yeah it's a pretty great browser, rename/rebrand and it won't matter. Best to stay away from the whole "the brand is ours" thing. All one needs really is a graphic that looks like a moon or other various space "rock" and it'll be fine.

Cheers,

chillfan

On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:57 AM, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:34:23 +0100
> "dev1fanboy" <devuanfanboy@???> wrote:
>
>> It would be nice to have palemoon, they are pretty open to choice and
>> are specifically against adding any DRM support in their browser.
>> Also, it works with XUL and doesn't have the bloat that Iceweasel
>> does that is annoying people in later releases. I have heard Debian
>> will follow the ESR releases (even in stable) so avoiding any of that
>> whilst having a non chrom(e|ium) browser will be harder if that's
>> true.
>>
>> Only issue with pale moon is the branding:
>> https://www.palemoon.org/branding.shtml
>>
>> Not sure if that's compatible with the main repo, maybe it needs
>> rebranding first?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> chillfan
>
> Yeah, just call it Bright Star, and swap the pale moon graphic with a
> beaming star. Then write the author, let him know what you did, and let
> him know that if he'd like the publicity benefit of having a major
> distro package Palemoon as Palemoon, he can write Devuan an official
> letter giving us permanent non-exclusive right to use the name and
> graphic, and we'll be glad to accommodate him with the publicity.
>
> By the way, thanks to emninger's post, I've been using Palemoon as my
> main browser for almost a week, and it's head and shoulders better than
> ALL the rest. It's less bloaty than the other XUL browsers, and it's
> more stable than the webkit based browsers.
>
> SteveT
>
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