[needs-packaging] doi addon for firefox

Thank you for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.

made a needs-packaging bug out of it and filed against the firefox-extensions project which we use to track packaging requests.

what license does DOI have? do they include a license in the .xpi? are they shipping binary components (e.g. *.so files)?

/* $Id: $ */
/* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
 * Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
 *
 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
 * 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
 *
 * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 * for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the
 * License.
 *
 * The Original Code is DOI protocol handler 0.1.
 *
 *** This code is heavily cribbed from:
 * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
 * Roderic D.M. Page (<email address hidden>).
 * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2004
 * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Contributor(s):
 *
 * Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
 * either the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"), or
 * the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),
 * in which case the provisions of the GPL or the LGPL are applicable instead
 * of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only
 * under the terms of either the GPL or the LGPL, and not to allow others to
 * use your version of this file under the terms of the MPL, indicate your
 * decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice
 * and other provisions required by the GPL or the LGPL. If you do not delete
 * the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under
 * the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL.
 *
 * ***** END LICENSE BLOCK ***** */

On 03/12/2009 08:50 AM, Martin wrote:
> /* $Id: $ */
> /* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
> * Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
> *
> * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
> * 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
> * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
> * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
> *
> * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
> * WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
> * for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the
> * License.
> *
> * The Original Code is DOI protocol handler 0.1.
> *
> *** This code is heavily cribbed from:
> * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
> * Roderic D.M. Page (<email address hidden>).
> * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2004
> * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
> *
> * Contributor(s):
> *
> * Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
> * either the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"), or
> * the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),
> * in which case the provisions of the GPL or the LGPL are applicable instead
> * of those above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only
> * under the terms of either the GPL or the LGPL, and not to allow others to
> * use your version of this file under the terms of the MPL, indicate your
> * decision by deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice
> * and other provisions required by the GPL or the LGPL. If you do not delete
> * the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file under
> * the terms of any one of the MPL, the GPL or the LGPL.
> *
> * ***** END LICENSE BLOCK ***** */
>
This will not be added as default extension, This is a bad idea.
There are several reasons why addons/plug-ins are not included by
default, off hand here are a few.
1. Slows down Firefox
2. Not everyone wants extensions installed when installing firefox.
3. Hard to diagnose problems in the extension

Please add this extensions and any info you have on it to:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Extensions/List
We go over this list and move forward on them when we get a chance.
If you feel like packaging it than feel free to add it to the first
block of extensions, If not please add it to either "needs maintainer"
or "missing information"
Any if you you leave out we can find, It is best to leave us all info at
hand so that is one less thing the packager has to spend time looking for.

Is that license block in the top leave directory of the .xpi?
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Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
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Since I am not the author I cannot give much more information about this. A general note is however that I think this actually should be a core competence of Firefox, i.e. , be able to interpret DOI adresses since it is a standardised way of addressing archived articles on the net.

On 03/16/2009 08:42 AM, Martin wrote:
> Since I am not the author I cannot give much more information about
> this. A general note is however that I think this actually should be a
> core competence of Firefox, i.e. , be able to interpret DOI adresses
> since it is a standardised way of addressing archived articles on the
> net.
>
I understand why you think this is a good idea, However hardcoding and
extension into Firefox isn't a good idea, for a number of reasons one
being the stablity of the end product. The only way this will happen is
from upstream. Please file a bug upstream maybe they will come to a
middle ground.
Once you file an upstream bug please give us the link here.
There is nothing we can do on our end except package the extension as we
do with others.

--
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
Linux User# 414246

"How can i get lost, if i have no where to go"
    -- Metallica from Unforgiven III