Comment 411 for bug 269656

Steve Langasek wrote:

I understand the concerns about the appropriateness of EULAs in free software programs (in part because I share them), but I don't see that anything here warrants being a blocker for the alpha-6 milestone release, so I'm dropping the milestone value for this bug. In terms of the bug being on the release team's radar, I think that's accomplished - it seems all the world is aware of this bug at this point. But I think there are several arguments against treating this as a blocker to be resolved prior to alpha-6:

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Steve - The issue here is more than the EULA to my understanding. Part of the goal of the EULA was to notify the user of non-free web services embedded in FireFox. In non-free, I do not mean paid, but services with licenses other than GPL and even to MPL.

This was required to because firefox is shipped with these services on. Being "good" FOSS, they wanted the users to know this. But being "good" FOSS, they should of separated this service from firefox main, and made it downloadable as an add on offer, with all the licensing requirements there helping the user to understand.

With "encumbered" source (FOSS source using non-FOSS service) mixed into firefox, makes firefox not acceptable main tree. That is what many are saying over and over, move firefox out to multiverse, get an untangle version as the default.