[Nix-dev] NixOS 16.09 and Firefox Nightly

David Izquierdo thecofee at gmail.com
Sun Mar 5 17:15:39 CET 2017


AFAIK those restrictions were recently dropped, Debian's firefox is now 
branded Firefox instead of Iceweasel. It probably should be changed in 
nixpkgs too to prevent further confusion.


On 05/03/17 16:16, Graham Christensen wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> As I understand it, what we ship in 16.09 is indeed the stable version
> of Firefox. However, since we build it ourselves the licensing
> restrictions of Mozilla require us to not call it "Firefox" but instead
> force us to call it "Nightly."
>
> Can you confirm that the version of Firefox you're running matches the
> currently available, stable, Firefox?
>
> Best,
> Graham Christensen
> NixOS Security Team
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