Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #83118
  2. Comment #42

Comment 42 for bug 83118

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Noah Slater (nslater) wrote : Re: [Bug 83118] Re: Should provide Iceweasel as some Firefox components are non-free

> 1. Move Firefox package to "restricted" repository
> 2. Move Firefox package to "multiverse" repository
> 3. Remove Firefox package from Ubuntu altogether

Or...

4. Move Firefox package to "restricted" repository and provide a free
version of Firefox under a different name in the "main" repository.

I run Ubuntu because, if I chose so, it is a free software
distribution. My choice is one of ethics, not practicality. I do not
believe I am alone in this position.

Firefox is my favourite browser and if it get's moved to "restricted"
with no alternative I will stop using it on principal, or more likely,
switch to using Debian.

As someone who develops packages for Debian I feel fairly confident in
saying that providing a free and non-free version of Firefox from the
same source package would be a trivial task.