LXer: Mozilla removes EULA from Linux Firefox

LXer · 09-19-2008, 06:20 AM

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Linux Firefox users can say a eulogy for EULA (End User License Agreement). After much pressure, Mozilla is removing the EULA from the Firefox welcome screen on Linux distributions, according to a recent Mozilla blog by Harvey Anderson, VP and general counsel of Mozilla.

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Hangdog42 · 09-19-2008, 07:31 AM

Finally, Mozilla wakes up. I've never understood why so many OSS software vendors (OpenOffice, are you listening?) force me to accept a EULA that has absolutely no impact on me. I recently came across a GPL program that has a EULA to accept the GPL. When I pointed out the nonsense to the authors, the reply I got back indicated they had no idea how the GPL actually worked.

Wake up authors, unless you have a EULA that is forcing some conditions on the end user, EULAs are Microsoft-think.

Randux · 09-19-2008, 08:16 AM

I've never seen a welcome screen from Firebox and especially not a EULA. Oh, that must be because I bring down my network before I fire up a new browser so I can get rid of all the crap I don't want like their preset homepage, bookmarks, etc.