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. -- AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269656 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
