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

[Andruk]

I would have to respectfully disagree with Dragonlord; i believe that
there is a large continuum of the freedom of software, akin to many
things.  Mozilla is a lot freer than many other web browsers out there,
and they deserve props for that.

However, forcing what amounts to a EULA on the end users is simply not a
good idea, as the vast majority of them have no intention of changing a
single byte of code of Firefox and distributing it.  Therefore, as
posted by Dave Morley, I think a simple message bar would suffice, as it
gives Mozilla a legal leg to stand on without annoying end users.

I can't say that I've ever disagreed with Mr. Shuttleworth's decisions,
in fact, he has come up with compromises that I did not.  That being
said, I don't consider myself a Shuttleworth fan aside from the fact
that his previous leadership and business insight leads me to believe
that he will make the best commercial decision for Canonical - to not
annoy end users.  I'm sure there will be a compromise, and all (most)
parties will be content.  Mozilla seems to have been a little
overzealous with their defense of their logo (see: Debian IceWeasel
browser), and seem to be backing down over the outcry.  In my mind, that
is exactly what a beta release is for, to flesh out bugs, mistakes, and
mis-features before they get released into the wild.

The journey to solve bug #1 continues with the small step of removing an
intrusive and largely irrelevant EULA.

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