Greg <curtys...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2025-03-08, Joey Hess <i...@joeyh.name> wrote: >> >> >> Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>> Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds >>> (and whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I >>> hope not. But irrespectively, users of Debian's Firefox packages are >>> not bound by Mozilla's EULA. >> >> Have you confirmed this with a lawyer? > > What? Why wouldn't Debian's Firefox sell or share user data whereas a > non-Debian package or binary might or would, according to the vague > legalese of the new EULA? If Debian users are not bound, by what > method or procedure are they exempted?
The original remark was that the licence applied to binaries. So if you compile the source, then the binary is your own, and not Mozilla's. But what if the two are identical? This reminds me of Palemoon, which although is open source, and originally forked from firefox, has a licence on its binaries. So if you don't want to be bound by that, you have to get the source without the Palemoon trademark and compile it yourself.
