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-About FreeAMO
-
-FreeAMO is a project used to get meta-data for free add-ons at
-addons.mozilla.org (AMO) used to produce free add-on repositories for
-free Mozilla-based programs. contain nonfree add-ons and Mozilla
-Foundation's addons.mozilla.org contains nonfree add-ons, and their
-programs including Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and Sunbird are
-trademarked and thus nonfree.
-
-FreeAMO ships with configuration files used to find free add-ons for
-the latest icecat version for Trisquel GNU/Linux. For more about
-IceCat see the `About IceCat` section and read the `About
-WebExtensions` section to find out why legacy add-ons are
-excluded. Icedove add-ons is not synced yet because Thunderbird still
-hasn't implemented WebExtension support, but it's discussed by the
-Mozilla developers, see
-https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396172 For more about
-Icedove see the `About Icedove` section. FreeAMO has an option to
-generate .wiki files designed to be imported to
-https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/, example:
-https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/LibreJS
-
-This script uses the Mozilla add-on API
-(https://addons-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/api/addons.html),
-and decides what to do with add-ons distributed under a free
-license. A lot of developers have added a license on the
-addons.mozilla.org page for their add-on but are not aware of the
-common guidelines to make their programs fully free because Mozilla
-never informed them about it. Common issues:
-* COPYING or LICENSE file in the root directory for example.
-* There are no (full) license notices in the non-trivial source files
-
-Add-ons that doesn't have these issues will get generated XML files
-that can be synced to the Free Software Directory while add-ons that
-has these issues will generated on a list so we can contact the
-developers and ask them to fix them.
-
-#####################################################################
-About addons.mozilla.org
-
-Mozilla's description: "Addons.mozilla.org (AMO), is Mozilla's
-official site for discovering and installing add-ons for the Firefox
-browser. Add-ons help you modify and personalize your browsing
-experience by adding new features to Firefox, enhancing your
-interactions with Web content, and changing the way your browser
-looks.
-
-You can also use AMO to find add-ons for Mozilla Thunderbird and
-SeaMonkey." - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/about
-
-API documentation:
-https://addons-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/api/addons.html
-
-#####################################################################
-About WebExtensions
-
-GNU IceCat 60 is based on Firefox ESR 60 which is the first Firefox
-ESR version based on Firefox Quantum (Firefox 57+). Firefox Quantum
-removed support for legacy add-ons and only run WebExtension
-add-ons. WebExtensions is a new browser extension compatible with the
-extensions APIs of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
-
-#####################################################################
-About GNU IceCat
-
-IceCat is the unbranded version of Firefox ESR.
-
-GNU IceCat aim to be based on the the current official release of
-Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) with removal of trademarked
-artwork and proprietary components.
-
-However, IceCat is not a straight fork of Firefox ESR; instead, it is
-a parallel effort that works closely with and re-bases in
-synchronization on the latest Firefox ESR as the upstream supplier,
-with patches merged upstream whenever possible; although it should be
-noted that additional security updates are customized to IceCat
-occasionally.
-
-#####################################################################
-About Icedove
-
-Icedove is the unbranded version of Thunderbird.