Firefox addon signing

[Martin Stransky]

On 08/28/2015 11:34 AM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the info. Actually is there any reason why Fedora packager would
>> need to modify the original extension?
>
>
> That depends on the extension and its particulars. For example,
> adblock plus has an extortion-like scheme in place and it allows
> certain ads from certain companies that have paid them good money for
> their service. This patch blocks those ads as well:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mozilla-adblockplus.git/tree/disable-safeads.patch
> I didn't care to check if such a modification is permitted by their TOS.
>

Hm, is such change actually allowed by AddBlock authors? It looks a bit 
controversial to me. The extension signing may also help users to make 
sure they have the original extensions from their authors.

ma.