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

[Remco]

That blog post does make it seem as if a sensible solution has been
found. I'll still take the wait and see approach, but I've got a good
feeling about this.

There are three different issues here, I think: the source (copyright)
license, the web services (contract) license, and the artwork
(trademark) license.

There was never a problem with the source license. MPL, LGPL and GPL are
three acceptable licenses.

I still feel that those non-free web services should be enabled
explicitly by the user. That is Ubuntu's overall policy: be free by
default, but don't make it difficult for a user to make some
concessions.

And the matter of the trademarked artwork has not been addressed yet.
Basically, the artwork hasn't been released under a free software
license. So Mozilla has the right to block any revision that Ubuntu
makes. That's not in the spirit of free software. And that essentially
makes the Firefox binary non-free.

I see no easy solution to this last problem. Debian removed all
trademarks because of this. The only other solution I can see is that
Mozilla doesn't enforce their trademark. But that's just like asking a
company to release their source code under a free software license. That
very rarely works.

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