In light of the recent comments, I'm starting to see the additional problems with having firefox as-is in main, especially with the web services enabled by default. Indeed, like Chip pointed out, Firefox with web services cannot be freely used without taking note of its use restrictions. I do accept Marks premise that web services are fundamentally of a different nature than applications, and therefore can not be treated the same.
But the bottom line remains the same: with anti-phishing enabled by default, Ubuntu is shipping a piece of software in main that has use restrictions in a default install (quoting from the draft Web Services Agreement: "[...] which are [...] made available subject to the terms below"). That's tough to reconcile with Ubuntu's promise of using only open/free software. On the one hand, requiring the user to take positive action in order to *disable* a web service he does not agree to is the wrong approach, but on the other hand, the users most likely to fall prone to phishing are the ones that will probably never go to the preferences dialog to enable the feature. Finally, there is one other point I feel I should comment on: "[...] there is no "GPL for Services" but we expect one to emerge over the next few years, and this work by Mozilla is an important first step." The GPL is not a use license: you can use the software without even being aware of the license. Like others have said, there is a GPL for services (Affero GPL) but at its core it's still a distribution license, not a use license, since it obliges the implementor of a service to convey the source of the service to its users. I do not agree that Mozilla is working on a "GPL for services" because what we're having is still an end-user license. In fact, it's not even Mozilla's. The agreement governs a web service provided (hosted) by Google. -- 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
