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Re:Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem by SushiHippie on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @02:54PM (#40504165)
It's called Fennec because it is not from Mozilla and includes patches to removs propietary bits (which are not allowed on F-Droid).

https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

And fennec was the 'internal' name for firefox on android from mozilla.

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Re:Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem by rakoo on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @04:02PM (#40504947)
You said you're in the EU right ? SEPA works. The only moment I need to confirm identity with my bank is when I buy frivolities, not for my bills.
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Re:Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem by mananaysiempre on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @04:55AM (#40509868)
> because it is not from Mozilla and includes patches to remove propietary bits

More specifically, because Mozilla won’t allow you to do that and still call it Firefox. (Except if you’re Debian, apparently Debian now gets an unwritten free pass after they demonstrated their willingness to protest that with Iceweasel. And either F-Droid is not big enough for that, Mozilla is not the same as it was back then, or both.)

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Re:Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem by 1oooqooq on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @09:44AM (#40511940)
fdroid have a non political policy. arch is the same. they won't even patch things nobody like (just document on the wiki and keep building upstream with the least amount of changes from the code repo. even if the upstream maintainers themselves dont build like that)

so, if firefox build builds as fenec by default, fennec it is.

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