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

[Wiktor Wandachowicz]

When installing Firefox on Windows only the Administrator sees the EULA,
before Firefox installation starts (as most of Windows programs do).
Other users running on their own accounts never see the EULA. Official
builds from Mozilla site "Firefox Setup 3.0.1.exe" (or even
"firefox-3.0.1.tar.bz2" for that matter) do not display EULA screen for
a regular user as well. Why then should Ubuntu's Firefox do that? It's
unfair.

Personally I would prefer all EULA's to be accepted either at package's
installation time (like for example "sun-java5-*" and "sun-java6-*" do)
or at the beginning of Ubuntu installation. Definitely not at the first
run, unless all official Firefox versions do this as well. Either ALL
versions do the same - INCLUDING Ubuntu - or another approach should be
found.

I am not against Mozilla EULA, far from it. They have the most right to
include it, and they really should keep doing it. However, why
inconvenience the Ubuntu users exclusively? Please treat all users of
different platforms the same way.

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