There is a discussion currently going on in the fedora-list[1] as well as Ubuntu's Launchpad[2] about the introduction of an EULA in FireFox 3[3]. There is also a bug filed in Mozilla's bugzilla on the subject[4].
An EULA does, of course, contravene freedom 0 of the FSF's four freedoms (namely, the ability to use the software for any purpose without restriction), which brings the freeness of FireFox into question.
As a distribution founded on the principles of Free software, what is the Fedora Project's policy on the subject? There is talk of Ubuntu dropping FireFox in favour of IceWeasel (which would have the same feature set as FireFox but without the EULA) - are there plans for Fedora to follow suit and treat FireFox in the same way as other non-Free software, such as non-Free drivers, etc.?
Whilst the signal to noise ratio on that Launchpad ticket is quite poor, there are some fairly good points raised and it is worth a read.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-September/msg01755.html [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/269656 [3] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/eula/firefox3-en.html [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439604 - Steve xmpp:steve@xxxxxxxxxxx sip:steve@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
