FireFox 3 EULA

[Steve Hill]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Do you mean you see the EULA every time you login (I don't),
> or do you mean once in the lifetime of Fedora-9, when you install Firefox?

With the official FireFox 3 installer from Mozilla, you get a EULA the 
first time you start FireFox.  And I understand that Ubuntu does the same 
(which is what the debate on LaunchPad is about).

Does Fedora 9 remove the EULA from the package?  If so, what is the legal 
position on removing the EULA whilst keeping the trademarked FireFox 
branding?

> but it seems to me that only a pedant would worry about that.

How so?  I choose to use Fedora because I believe in Free software, and 
that as a user I should have the ability to do whatever I want with the 
software (within the confines of the law).  An EULA is an artificial 
restriction on the user's freedoms (if it is at all enforcable).  At the 
point where we allow certain freedoms to be removed, we may as well give 
up on the whole idea of Free software, surely?

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