Re: Addon licenses, plugin links, about:gnuzilla, and a bug

[Sam Geeraerts]

Nick schreef:
> First, addons.mozilla.org do now have a (optional) license field for 
> addons. As far as I can tell you can't yet use it as a search 
> filter, and I don't know how the addon finder service works, 
> but it looks like they did listen after all. See the addon 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11249 for an example 
> of the field in action.

Great! That opens the door to automatically build the free add-ons list. 
I wonder what brought on this change and who we can thank for it.

I learnt from the FAQ page that is linked to from that addon page that 
they actually review add-ons before they go on AMO. I hope that will 
include verifying the license field in the future. If that field can be 
trusted then there would be no need for GNUzilla contributors to verify 
the individual files in the addons and the list could be built 
automatically.