[Bug 467] Package Review: Mosaic - Web Browser

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467





--- Comment #4 from Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk>  2009-03-29 21:28:24 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > I'm opposed to have this packaged into rpmfusion, last upstream release is more
> > > than 10 years ago.
> > 
> > What's wrong with that provided the package has an active maintainer?
> 
> It may have tons of security issues and it isn't useful at all because it can
> hardly display any current web page correctly.

Firefox has tons of security issues as well. They're being fixed actively. Feel
free to point me to a single security issue of Mosaic, and I'll be glad to fix
it.

Please refrain from commenting functionality when you've not tried it. It
indeed renders most pages usably and probably even better than some browsers
Fedora ships do (lynx).

> > > Any reason why this package should be usefull?
> > 
> > Browsing gopher?
> 
> So, why not providing gopher? or Netscape 3.x and 4.x? 

Seriously -- what's wrong with providing a lightweight web browser? It starts
up blazingly fast and renders reasonably well. I'm sure I'm not the only user
who finds that useful.

> Another reason why we shouldn't ship is because it can go in Fedora because the
> license is fine:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#SoftwareLicenses
> 

No it's not. The Mosaic license it's not even there. And it forbids commercial
use, therefore is not compatible with Fedora:

 * Any Licensee wishing to make commercial use of the Software should       *
 * contact the UI, c/o NCSA, to negotiate an appropriate license for such   *
 * commercial use.  Commercial use includes (1) integration of all or       *
 * part of the source code into a product for sale or license by or on      *
 * behalf of Licensee to third parties, or (2) distribution of the binary   *
 * code or source code to third parties that need it to utilize a           *
 * commercial product sold or licensed by or on behalf of Licensee.         *


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