Re: Rejecting the Firefox EULA in Ubuntu
Is there an easy way to reject the EULA on the Firefox shipped with Ubuntu and still be able to use the software? Has anyone patched the source code to remove this yet? *SNIP* This is on Fedora, but should help: http://www.toad.com/gnu/sysadmin/index.html#firefox-eula-sux Morgan, Thanks for the suggestion, I have seen this article before. It describes how to modify the binary and not the source. I'm looking to remove the EULA dialog from the source altogether, so the resulting packages do not have it. Or alternatively allow you to reject the terms but still use the program. It seems no'one has looked into this yet, so I will have a look this weekend. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Rejecting the Firefox EULA in Ubuntu
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 14:14 +0100, Sean Hodges wrote: It seems no'one has looked into this yet, so I will have a look this weekend. There has recently been an announcement from Mozilla that they're going to fix this. See, for example, the coverage in Groklaw (even if you don't like Groklaw they do have links to blog postings etc.) The discussion about whether we want to keep FireFox with the attendant risk of brush fires such as this one should continue, but I don't think we need to rush out and adopt Iceweasel or whatever before Intrepid ships (assuming Mozilla actually does what they say they're going to do: fix the problem). -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Rejecting the Firefox EULA in Ubuntu
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 09:22, Paul Smith wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 14:14 +0100, Sean Hodges wrote: It seems no'one has looked into this yet, so I will have a look this weekend. There has recently been an announcement from Mozilla that they're going to fix this. See, for example, the coverage in Groklaw (even if you don't like Groklaw they do have links to blog postings etc.) The discussion about whether we want to keep FireFox with the attendant risk of brush fires such as this one should continue, but I don't think we need to rush out and adopt Iceweasel or whatever before Intrepid ships (assuming Mozilla actually does what they say they're going to do: fix the problem). Yes and look which side of the problem space Groklaw (rightly, IMO) puts Ubuntu. This is something Mozilla absolutely should have understood would never be acceptable. The fact that they are now shocked at the push-back is indicative of how far they are from the FOSS community. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080917045510597 Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Rejecting the Firefox EULA in Ubuntu
Is there an easy way to reject the EULA on the Firefox shipped with Ubuntu and still be able to use the software? Has anyone patched the source code to remove this yet? I'm not just an end-user of the software, and I do not want to mess around with licence agreements each time I want to modify parts of it that could be construed as branding. If someone has a solution right now, I'll roll a package and point to it on the Wiki. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Rejecting the Firefox EULA in Ubuntu
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Sean Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to reject the EULA on the Firefox shipped with Ubuntu and still be able to use the software? Has anyone patched the source code to remove this yet? Is ABrowser [1] sufficient for your purposes? Denver 1. http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/abrowser -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Rejecting the Firefox EULA in Ubuntu
Denver Gingerich wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Sean Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to reject the EULA on the Firefox shipped with Ubuntu and still be able to use the software? Has anyone patched the source code to remove this yet? Is ABrowser [1] sufficient for your purposes? Denver 1. http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/abrowser Unfortunately there appears to be a bug[0] where abrowser asks about the EULA. I don't know if this would be a blocker. Iain [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubufox/+bug/269795 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
