Firefox newly insists on showing an EULA

[Michael Casadevall]

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Linux is trademarked, yet I see no EULA for it. Trademarks can be free
depending on how they're licensed. I already believe Firefox's no
modifcations policy is already fairly bad, and now we need an EULA on
top of being restricted on changing it? Bah, if that's how they want
to play ball, I recommend debranding it; as we already have abrowser
as a debranded Firefox in the repo, I recommend simply changing the
seed, and moving Firefox to multiverse. The same applies to
Thunderbird, Sunbird, and Seamonkey.
Michael

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On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> IMHO, several ways to handle that:
> 1) Cave in to Mozilla request (Trademarks are trademarks. They are
> bitch and their protection are somehow incompatible with free
> software. But that's life)
> 2) Provide Iceweasel and rebrand it as Ubuntu Web browser, and provide
> easy way to install Firefox from universe. Those who will care will
> install it, OEMs will install it on new boxes by default anyway, and
> those who care about libre, will stay clean.
> 3) Ditch Firefox as default browser in Intrepid+1 and go on with
> Epiphany/Webkit. Still, provide easy way to install FF.
>
> One big point is that most users who would like to see Firefox as
> "familiar" brand are OEM users anyway - they will get their browser
> installed by support guys. Also Hardy still get FF 3.0 without EULA
> (so far), so propably not so much to worry about.
>
> Just my two cents,
> Peter.
>
> 2008/9/15 Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de>:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> readers of this list might be interested in the discussion here:
>>
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656/>
>>
>> It's about a new requirement from the Mozilla Foundation, how End
>> User License Agreements (EULAs) are against the spirit of free
>> software and the GPL, how click-through requirements affect the user
>> experience and about wether Firefox should be replaced with a
>> differently branded equivalent:
>>
>> <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13200/>
>> <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13201/>
>> <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13202/>
>>
>>
>> MarKus
>>
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>> Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
>> http://www.jump-ing.de/
>>
>>
>>
>>
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