Project Timberwolf - Firefox for AmigaOS4.1

[Hans_]

Sorry to bring down the mood, but...


Are you kidding me? Clean code, OS3/OS4/MOS compatibility, and a split of bounty funds proportional to individuals' effort involved are "unrealistic terms"? If there's one thing we Amigans are great at, it's wasting resources on duplicate efforts. Is it really so unreasonable to have a single bounty for Mozilla on the Amiga? Even an OS4-only version of AmiZilla is still worth ~$2500.

The Amizilla bounty has been around for years, and no cross-platform group has made a proper attempt at getting it working. Considering that the initial port to any Amiga compatible platform would be ~99% of the work, do you think that it's fair that the initial porters get just 25% of the bounty? I certainly don't, and take it that the Friedens don't either. I also don't see waiting for someone else to do all of the hard work, and then doing a quickie port to your favourite platform (and claiming 25% of the bounty for little effort) as real cooperation.

I also think that having to port to 68k Amigas is not worth it, they're too slow and don't have enough memory to use something as big as Firefox.

Hans

[Hans_]

What legal reasons exactly? It's called Firefox on all the other platforms, yes? Is it because they don't want to contribute back their own complete sources to this *open source* project?

Actually no, Debian also contains a version of Firefox that's called IceWeasel for legal reasons, and that's an open-source project. Something about all modifications having to be approved by the Mozilla Foundation (including those necessary for porting).

Now a quick word about *open source*; not all open source licenses are GPL, and if the license says that the code can be used in closed-source projects, then the code can be used in closed-source projects (provided that all requirements are met). The MPL license clearly says that the code can be used together with closed-source files, so that means that they clearly have the original author's permission to do so.

Hans

[Hans_]

No, and that's not what "a split of bounty funds proportional to individuals' effort" means, is it?

The Amizilla bounty also states that a port to only one of the target platforms will only get 25% of the bounty. If someone in the team that did this said port did 70% of the work, then they would get 70% of that 25%.

Nowhere did I claim that they were doing something illegal or violating any licenses.

What you said suggested that you still feel that what they're doing is wrong, despite the Mozilla foundation - who wrote the original code - having given them permission (via the license).

Hans