[Bug 269656] Re: AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP

Bryan Donlan bd-ubuntu at fushizen.net
Sun Sep 14 19:38:17 UTC 2008


Really, the answer is simple. If firefox cannot be modified to remove
the EULA and then distributed legally by Ubuntu, it is simply not free
software. Thus it should be in restricted or multiverse, and subject to
the same reduced support. In particular, the default installation should
not install it.

The fact that the restrictions come from trademark and not copyright law
is irrelevant - the result is that modifications are not legal without
first removing the non-free (ie, trademarked) content. It is thus an
equivalent situation to having a mix of GPL'd code and proprietary code
mixed together, made legal in that exact (unmodified) form by the
blessing of the GPL code's copyright holder. While this may be legal to
redistribute according to some separate license, this doesn't make it
even remotely free software.

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AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP
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