Markus Hitter pisze:
Hello all,
readers of this list might be interested in the discussion here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656/
It's about a new requirement from the Mozilla Foundation, how End
User License Agreements (EULAs) are against the spirit
Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranding
http://lwn.net/Articles/118268/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439604
http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/09/15/ubuntu-firefox-and-license-issues/
On 2008/09/16 19:43 (GMT+0200) Przemys?aw Kulczycki composed:
The browser's startpage could explain that this browser is based on
Firefox and works just like Firefox. Browser's user agent string could
be amended with (based on Firefox) to make sure that sites created by
lame webmasters (using
I think we discussed enough, we should start taking action. We are
already at Alpha 6 freeze state and clearly most of us don't want any
stinking EULAs popping when starting our free software. We must have
this sorted out before 8.10 Beta comes out.
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Hello all,
readers of this list might be interested in the discussion here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656/
It's about a new requirement from the Mozilla Foundation, how End
User License Agreements (EULAs) are against the spirit of free
software and the
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Linux is trademarked, yet I see no EULA for it. Trademarks can be free
depending on how they're licensed. I already believe Firefox's no
modifcations policy is already fairly bad, and now we need an EULA on
top of being restricted on changing it? Bah,
One compelling reason (which I also posted on that launchpad thread)
not to keep on using Firefox is that Mozilla can hurt Ubuntu with this
stuff. They can demand all kinds of stuff way too late in Ubuntu's
development cycle, with no time for Ubuntu to properly respond to it.
The web browser is a
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 13:12, Peteris Krisjanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
IMHO, several ways to handle that:
1) Cave in to Mozilla request (Trademarks are trademarks. They are
bitch and their protection are somehow incompatible with free
software. But that's life)
2) Provide Iceweasel
Disclaimer: I'm not trademark lawyer, but do know people with some
professional insight in this field.
Linux is trademarked, yet I see no EULA for it.
And it was one of reasons why Linux foundation almost lost trademark.
When they tried to enforce it properly, they heard all the same cries,
Almost every industry product we know has some sort of a trademark.
Yet, when you buy paper towels, grocery, shoes, ... nowhere you have
to agree to such an agreement. Not even when buying high-level items
like cars.
This is about the ability to distribute, not about the private at the
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 14:01 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 15.09.2008 um 13:45 schrieb Peteris Krisjanis:
trademarks are trademarks. They must be enforced and only
way for owners to control them is agreements.
Almost every industry product we know has some sort of a trademark.
Yet,
Giving out CDs for an early celebration of Software Freedom Day
yesterday, we were asked *very* often if Ubuntu had a web browser.
Yes, Firefox Oh good, I use that on Windows.
#1: Same response, and they're used to click-throughs anyway
#2: We'd have to explain all the trademark stuff and
I don't really like #3 because while I recognize that Webkit is a
*great* rendering engine, Firefox has a monopoly on extensions. Hrm,
maybe there needs to be some mass attempt at migrating FF extensions to
Epiphany.
By the way, I thought the same, and then I decided to check out
Epiphany -
2008/9/15 Neal McBurnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But first I'd like to actually read the EULA, and I'm surprised no one
has posted the text of it (as far as I have found) to this discussion
or to the bug.
The link to it was in the bug:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/eula/firefox3-en.html
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:12:52PM +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
IMHO, several ways to handle that:
1) Cave in to Mozilla request (Trademarks are trademarks. They are
bitch and their protection are somehow incompatible with free
software. But that's life)
2) Provide Iceweasel and rebrand it
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 14:12 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
Hi!
IMHO, several ways to handle that:
1) Cave in to Mozilla request (Trademarks are trademarks. They are
bitch and their protection are somehow incompatible with free
software. But that's life)
2) Provide Iceweasel and rebrand it
On 15/09/08 18:52, Markus Hitter wrote:
Hello all,
readers of this list might be interested in the discussion here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656/
It's about a new requirement from the Mozilla Foundation, how End
User License Agreements (EULAs) are
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