At Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:44:15 +0200, Thomas Linden wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:21:17PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
It seems that Firefox binaries are covered by an end user license agreement that might even not allow redistribution and they contain proprietary code for error reporting: Talkback.
They are free to use any license they want. Who cares?!
I do. I care about my freedom.
Tell people about Firefox's problems to help pressuring binary producers to not create such problems and learn to pay attention.
Is this the role of the FSF? To pressure people?
Yes it is one the things the FSF should do.
I don't see any problems with firefox at all.
I do see a problem. Namely that my freedom is taken away when I download and use the firefox binary. Even worse, my privacy might also be taken away, since Talkback error reporting tool might send any information without me knowing it.
And it is not the FSF to decide which license is right and which is not.
The FSF can tell them and the world what they think.
Freedom also means to let people decide themselfes how they want to do things, not to tell them how they shall do it.
Freedom also means that you can tell and explain your opinion to other people.
You have to learn a lot.
Who doesn't?
Jeroen Dekkers