This is the README file for the GNU IceCat distribution.

Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.

The goal of the IceCat project is to provide a completely free version
of the popular mozilla source code.  It is part of Gnuzilla, the
umbrella project analogous to Mozilla.  The base Mozilla code is free
but it supports and suggests using non-free plugins and other modules.
GNU IceCat is completely free, and suggests only free plugins to
users. If you aren't aware of the rationale and goals of the Free
Software Movement, please take a look at this page:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

To report problems, request changes, or other discussion, please use the
public mailing list bug-gnuzilla@gnu.org.  This is an open list, feel
free to subscribe or view the archives at
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnuzilla.

The Gnuzilla and IceCat home page:  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla
The sources are hosted on Savannah: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuzilla


BUILD FROM TARBALL
==================
From the released IceCat source tarball, you can build in the
standard way:
./configure && make

Be sure you have installed the needed libraries.  If you want to tune
the configuration process you can change the default setup using the
file .mozconfig.

The default configuration of IceCat uses the following libraries:
libpango libpangoxft libpangoft2 libfreetype libxft libgtk2 libx11

Refer to your distro help as needed if the configure script fails to
find them.


INSTALL
=======
When you have it built you can install it with:
make install

If you want to install in a staging directory, you can do this:
make install DESTDIR=/foo/bar


LICENSING
=========
Because we hope and want our privacy enhancements to be picked up by
Mozilla itself, we are keeping the same tri-licensing scheme for
Gnuzilla/IceCat as Mozilla uses: MPL/GPL/LGPL.


EXTENSIONS INCLUDED IN ICECAT 12.0
==================================
Four extensions are included to this version of IceCat:

* GNU LibreJS
  GNU LibreJS is part of the GNU Project. It is released under the GNU
  General Public License version 3 or later.

* The IceCat Privacy Extension
  The Privacy Extension is released under the GNU General Public
  License version 3 or later.

* Https-Everywhere
  Released under the GNU General Public License 2 or later.  See
  license file located at
  browser/branding/unofficial/extensions/https-everywhere@eff.org/LICENSE.txt

* Priv3
  Priv3 is released under the BSD 2-clause license.  See extension
  page at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/priv3/
  Released under the BSD 2-clause license:
  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php



CONTRIBUTORS AND HELP
=====================
The primary maintainer of GNU IceCat is Loic J. Duros.
We thank the Hitflip team (http://www.hitflip.de/special/gnu) for the
IceCat logos.
Additional contributors are most welcome.
