On: Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup

[reubenmorais]

You're supposed to remove the branding from the binary — as in user visible logos and names —, not the source code.

You can't reasonably expect forks to remove all the thousands of references to "Firefox" from the source code, like in comments, component names, etc.

[GFK_of_xmaspast → reubenmorais]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed

[reubenmorais → GFK_of_xmaspast]

Yeah, but it'd be a silly requirement, and would make syncing upstream changes to your fork needlessly difficult. My point is the Firefox branding stuff does not apply to the source code of forks.

[chris_wot → GFK_of_xmaspast]

Oh yeah, that would be really easy.

[GFK_of_xmaspast → chris_wot]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find

[chris_wot → GFK_of_xmaspast]

Digging that hole deeper and deeper there I see.