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Re:Mozilla’s Add-on Policy Is Hostile to Open Source by davb on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @05:57PM (#8660284)
Is there anything stopping them from distributing the extensions outside AMO? I agree that the delays are frustrating, but you're not targeting end users - surely developers can download the add-on from your own website...
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Re:Mozilla’s Add-on Policy Is Hostile to Open Source by msujaws on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @06:01PM (#8660306)
Add-ons can be distributed outside of AMO. A secondary (more scary) dialog is shown before the add-on can be installed, but users can click past it to get to the add-on.

PDF.js uses this approach actually. See "Development version" at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/ as an example.

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