Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #121734
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 121734

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In , Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

From Ubuntu Bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/121734

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The orig.tar.gz's of Mozilla products have some binary-only files (Windows DLLs and MacOS) without accompanying source code. Thus they do not fulfill the 'preferred form of modification' requirements of GPL/MPL. They either need to be removed, accompanied by source, or distributed under another license (such as BSD).
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As a starter (probably not complete) a file list that appear to be binary-only can be found in the script:

  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8648794/remove.nonfree

Possible resolutions:
 1. ship sources for the binary only files in produce tarball
 2. remove binary only files from distributed source tarball