Closed Bug 1242438 Opened 8 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Make Gecko fully compatible with free and open-source compilers

Categories

(Core :: General, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: shanshandehongxing, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160123151951



Actual results:

Is it possible to make Gecko compatible with free and open-source compilers? Wikipedia article has included the following criticism about Gecko:

“On Windows and similar platforms, Gecko depends on non-free compilers. Thus, FOSS distributions of Linux can not include the Gecko package used in the Windows compatibility layer Wine.”
Summary: Make Gecko compatible with free and open-source compilers → Make Gecko fully compatible with free and open-source compilers
Since Firefox 63 built with Clang, it’s unnecessary to think of this.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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