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

[Jeroen Hoek]

Looking at the Mozilla Firefox EULA, there are a lot of points I cannot
completely understand as a user without any legal background. One point
in particular strikes me as odd and possible very offensive.

> 6. EXPORT CONTROLS. This license is subject to all applicable export restrictions. 
> You must comply with all export and import laws and restrictions and regulations 
> of any United States or foreign agency or authority relating to the Product and its use. 

Does this mean I am suddenly subject to US laws? I've never even been
near the country. Regardless of the answer to this, a common user will
be confused and intimidated by this legalese.

As a user:
* I cannot agree to a EULA when I do not understand its contents.
* I should not be expected to read through pages of legal text.
* I should never be asked to agree to (in most jurisdictions legally void) legal texts by my computer in a default install.

A number of people above have stated that IceWeasel can be a fully
compatible replacement for Firefox. I would, however, suggest looking
into the user agent string issue, although I suspect that websites that
depend of the "Firefox" bit in the string are extremely rare.

+1 IceWeasel
+1 Firefox should no longer reside in main

I hope Mozilla is willing to reconsider their position. Good luck to the
Ubuntu and Canonical people involved in resolving this issue. I am
confident common sense will prevail in the end.

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