Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?
On 16/05/14 05:29, Eelis wrote:
> On 2014-05-15 20:35, Eelis wrote:
>> On 2014-05-15 20:27, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>> Mozilla will be shipping an Open Source sandbox for the plugin.
>>
>> Ah yes, that's also an interesting point, because one of the blog posts
>> says:
>>
>> “Adobe and the content industry can audit our sandbox (as it is open
>> source) to assure themselves that we respect the restrictions they are
>> imposing on us and users”
>>
>> Would it not be possible for me (or anyone else) to create a branch of
>> Firefox where these restrictions are removed?
>
> Ah, in [1], Gervase Markham writes:
>
> "The CDM also verifies that the sandbox is one it trusts, so if you
> patch the sandbox, the CDM will no longer work."
>From a previous post in this thread - which you seem to have, um,
overlooked:-
> You are free to modify the
> code for it - but good luck getting the Adobe plugin to install. You can
> even write and compile your own sandbox.
[as long as the plugin "likes" it - it checks the integrity of the
sandbox, the w3c spec has been posted earlier (and this whole issue has
been on their mailing lists for a l-ong time)]
>
> Predictably, many commenters ask how that will work. Gervase says there
> will be a technical FAQ in a day or two (I dunno why he can't just give
> the answer).
>
> [1]
> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/comment-page-1/
>From the page you started this scare campaign with:-
"Mozilla will distribute the sandbox alongside Firefox, and we are
working on deterministic builds[*1] that will allow developers to use a
sandbox compiled on their own machine with the CDM as an alternative."
[*1]
byte-for-byte - so it has the correct signature for the plugin.
Regards
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