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MOZILLA FIREFOX END-USER SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
Version 3.0, May 2008
A source code version of certain Firefox Browser functionality that you may use, modify and distribute is available to you free-of-charge from www.mozilla.org under the Mozilla Public License and other open source software licenses.
The accompanying executable code version of Mozilla Firefox and related documentation (the "Product") is made available to you under the terms of this Mozilla Firefox End-User Software License Agreement (the "Agreement"). By clicking the "Accept" button, or by installing or using the Mozilla Firefox Browser, you are consenting to be bound by the Agreement. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, do not click the "Accept" button, and do not install or use any part of the Mozilla Firefox Browser.
During the Mozilla Firefox installation process, and at later times, you may be given the option of installing additional components from third-party software providers. The installation and use of those third-party components may be governed by additional license agreements.
1. LICENSE GRANT. The Mozilla Corporation grants you a non-exclusive license to use the executable code version of the Product. This Agreement will also govern any software upgrades provided by Mozilla that replace and/or supplement the original Product, unless such upgrades are accompanied by a separate license, in which case the terms of that license will govern.
2. TERMINATION. If you breach this Agreement your right to use the Product will terminate immediately and without notice, but all provisions of this Agreement except the License Grant (Paragraph 1) will survive termination and continue in effect. Upon termination, you must destroy all copies of the Product.
3. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. Portions of the Product are available in source code form under the terms of the Mozilla Public License and other open source licenses (collectively, "Open Source Licenses") at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL. Nothing in this Agreement will be construed to limit any rights granted under the Open Source Licenses. Subject to the foregoing, Mozilla, for itself and on behalf of its licensors, hereby reserves all intellectual property rights in the Product, except for the rights expressly granted in this Agreement. You may not remove or alter any trademark, logo, copyright or other proprietary notice in or on the Product. This license does not grant you any right to use the trademarks, service marks or logos of Mozilla or its licensors.
4. PRIVACY POLICY. You agree to the Mozilla Firefox Privacy Policy, made available online at http://www.mozilla.com/legal/privacy/, as that policy may be changed from time to time. When Mozilla changes the policy in a material way a notice will be posted on the website at www.mozilla.com and when any change is made in the privacy policy, the updated policy will be posted at the above link. It is your responsibility to ensure that you understand the terms of the privacy policy, so you should periodically check the current version of the policy for changes.
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8. EXPORT CONTROLS. This license is subject to all applicable export restrictions. You must comply with all export and import laws and restrictions and regulations of any United States or foreign agency or authority relating to the Product and its use.
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Really, FireFox is not a free software! You're kidding. A free software is a software that is distributed under the copyright law. So a little legalise is necessary. As far as I can see that the 4 liberties are respected, for me it's a free software. A logo or a trademarks is not the software itself... I don't care if the project protect them. If I really want to modify the software, I will recompile and can strip the logo and trademarks.
Free software live in the real world so it has to be a little bit cautious.
André Cotte
You can simply accept GPL for Firefox. For example Qt is licensed under both GPL and proprietary licence, but still it is available even in such free-software only distributions as gNewSense because we can simply select GPL.
It is free software. 1. You are allowed access to the source 2. You are permitted to practise all four freedoms of free software.
If you're really worried about it, you can get the source and compile your own binary and choose to have the GPL apply to you. The EULA applies to the binary and the code is available under the MPL, GPL2 and LGPL2; it is up to you to choose which one will apply to you.
I'm using the source build on gentoo and I still get prompted.
Somebody programmed that prompt into the code. You can get the source from the Firefox website then remove the prompt yourself; after all, it is free software.
The problem with the "compile from source" option is:
What I find most unacceptable, is this issue of forced EULA acceptance in supposedly Free Software. This is entirely contradictory to the principles of Free Software:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Note that OpenOffice.org recently had a similar issue, which has now been fixed. I strongly suggest Mozilla® Corp. does the same, before every other distro does the same as Debian.
Personally, I'll be using and recommending GNU IceCat from now on, since the issues of forced EULA acceptance and trademarks restrictions make Firefox®, and other Mozilla® Corp. applications, non-Free software, IMHO.
Pretty much the same is contained in GNU IceCat. So, rebranding doesn't just magically solve all issues... I really wonder how "8. EXPORT CONTROLS" could be compatible with free software. --plato
Exactly same EULA can be found in Iceweasel package from Debian repos as well. Rebranding doesn't change the essence, neither with Debian's Iceweasel nor with GNU IceCat. And how could "8. EXPORT CONTROLS." of this EULA be compatible with The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) "5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups: The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons."? --plato
the GPL'ed version is already the one which included in all major GNU/Linux and *BSD Distributions.
there's no need to compile it from source except - maybe - on M$-Windows.
Other free OSes normaly compiles the GPL'ed version and distributes it and NOT the EULA'ed one.
So i think no need to recompile it from source just use any major GNU/Linux distribution.