Firefox Eula to clutter Ubuntu User’s Experience

By Stefano Forenza on September 14, 2008

In the nearing Intrepid release, Firefox displays an EULA to the user the first time it is started.
This brought a lenghty discussion on launchpad.

Firefox’s EULA raises a number of concerns:

the EULA refusal doesn’t prevent the user in any way from using Firefox, therefore EULA’s is just noise added to the user experience.
the EULA agreement would make firefox a non-free application which should be moved to multiverse.
refusing the EULA would (legally) leave the user without a browser in the default install.
EULA approval on first start would make firefox less usable when using the Live CD.

So far the options are the following:

Keeping firefox as it is, even with the EULA.
Switch to Epiphany as the default webbrowser.
Adopt IceWeasel from debian (which is firefox, with logo and brand replaced)

I’ve created three different Brainstorm idea to let people make their voice heard:

Keeping Firefox:

Adopting Iceweasel:

Adopting Epiphany:

EDIT: I’ve been digged ! http://digg.com/linux_unix/firefox_eula_to_clutter_ubuntu_user_s_experience

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6 responses to “Firefox Eula to clutter Ubuntu User’s Experience”

Mozilla no pudo con Ubuntu — Criando Cuervos
September 16, 2008 at 8:22 pm | Permalink
[...] asumible por una distribución como Ubuntu a pesar de tener un carácter más comercial que Debian. Cambiar el navegador fue una de las opciones que se mencionaban por los problemas derivados de la inclusión de este EULA ya que en caso de que [...]
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September 16, 2008 at 11:31 pm | Permalink
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Mozilla exige a Ubuntu incorporar una EULA a Firefox « Conocimiento Libre (o lo que está detrás del Software Libre)
September 17, 2008 at 5:07 am | Permalink
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September 17, 2008 at 7:18 pm | Permalink
[...] ahí está el lío. Se apunta que, como mínimo, esta licencia haría obligatorio pasar los paquetes de Firefox a multiverse [...]
Tu Linux
September 18, 2008 at 6:00 am | Permalink
Mozilla Firefox admite que EULA es defectuoso…
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Mercatest
September 2, 2009 at 9:34 am | Permalink
Deberían existir EULAS menos restrictivos y más abiertos en las miras, pero quizá lo que pasa es que las empresas se quieren proteger al máximo y producen movimientos extraños… Let’s wait to what happens!