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About this project
This project has been developed to syncronize free WebExtensions (WE) data from addons.mozilla.org entries to the Free Software Directory entries (https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:IceCat), example https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/librejs/ with https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/LibreJS. See `About WebExtensions` why legacy add-ons are excluded.
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.
I've decided to set the uppder limit for WebExtensions to have 10 000 daily users or more so we have a chance to work on the most relevant add-ons since there are many thousands of add-ons on addons.mozilla.org. However a few add-ons that has less than 10 000 daily users are highly relevant (for example https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/librejs/ at this writing) so the script will be able to include add-ons from customized so called Collections from addons.mozilla.org (example, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/DavidHedlund/) where they can be managed, or from a simple text document that lists the addons.mozilla.org URL's.
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About WebExtensions
GNU IceCat 60 is based on Firefox ESR 60 which is the first Fireofox 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.
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About GNU IceCat
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.
IceCat -> Tools -> Add-ons (about:addons) -> Get Add-ons -- this page could use https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:IceCat?&printable=yes in the future
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