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

[SilverWave]

Mozilla Re-Thinking Firefox EULA
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http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3771696

The Good News:
"In a conversation with InternetNews.com, Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of Mozilla, admitted that Mozilla may not need both the EULA and open source license, with the EULA the likely casualty."

The Not so Good News:
That said she does feel that an agreement behind just having the source code licensed under an open source license is necessary.

"There is a need for something, something to explain the license I'm not sure I would call it a EULA because that has a meaning to many people of adding restrictions to software and we won't be doing that," Baker said. "We'll be having a license agreement much as Red Hat has a license agreement that says the software is available under the GPL and don't use our trademarks etcetera. So we'll have a license agreement but we won't think of it as a EULA." 
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SilverWave:
Hopefully a one-time tab opening on first use with this information will be sufficient?

Got to say though that this has been a PR blunder of epic proportions.
If you're Mozilla you really have to work to stop Ubuntu users loving you but they have managed it with this EULA demand...

And now we learn that all the months of negotiations and pressure put on
the distro's to  kneel before the might of the Corporation was... a
mistake?

I would be laughing if I wasn't crying.

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