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

[jackb_guppy]

Steve Langasek wrote:

I understand the concerns about the appropriateness of EULAs in free
software programs (in part because I share them), but I don't see that
anything here warrants being a blocker for the alpha-6 milestone
release, so I'm dropping the milestone value for this bug. In terms of
the bug being on the release team's radar, I think that's accomplished -
it seems all the world is aware of this bug at this point. But I think
there are several arguments against treating this as a blocker to be
resolved prior to alpha-6:

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Steve - The issue here is more than the EULA to my understanding.  Part
of the goal of the EULA was to notify the user of non-free web services
embedded in FireFox.  In non-free, I do not mean paid, but services with
licenses other than GPL and even to MPL.

This was required to because firefox is shipped with these services on.
Being "good" FOSS, they wanted the users to know this.  But being "good"
FOSS, they should of separated this service from firefox main, and made
it downloadable as an add on offer, with all the licensing requirements
there helping the user to understand.

With "encumbered" source (FOSS source using non-FOSS service) mixed into
firefox, makes firefox not acceptable main tree.   That is what many are
saying over and over, move firefox out to multiverse, get an untangle
version as the default.

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