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Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed
darthcamaro writes "Mozilla has now come around and is taking seriously the concerns of Ubuntu and others about the Firefox EULA, which we discussed vigorously the other day. In fact Mozilla told InternetNews.com that the EULA itself is flawed and will be replaced with something else. Quoting Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker from the article: 'There is a need for something, something to explain the license[.] I'm not sure I would call it a EULA because that has a meaning to many people of adding restrictions to software and we won't be doing that. We'll be having a license agreement much as Red Hat has a license agreement that says the software is available under the GPL and don't use our trademarks et cetera. So we'll have a license agreement but we won't think of it as a EULA.'"
Yes but this way they can give it a fun sounding name with a happy acronym like FUNS (Free Unlicenced Not-free Software) or FAIRN (Free Although Its Really Not).
Or even better: FAIBNFAIL (Free As In Beer, Not Free As In Libre).
Ignore that it doesn't quite conform to any of those.
FAGNFAP - Free As in Gloryhole not Free As in herPes.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Do I have to accept it in order to proceed? If I do, it's a EULA no matter what you call it.
Did you even read the article?!? It's not an End User License Agreement, it's just a License Agreement for the End User so it's not a EULA...
it's a LAEU...
Obviously way different.
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
At starbuck's this morning all the bluehaired ladies were sitting around laughing at the fox while they surfed the web using assorted beta software packages.
I think one of 'em had Dillo v0.9 from an svn repository.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
License Agreement for Mozilla End-users.
What, no good?
It's walking like a duck and quacking like a duck.
One is a mallard with a cold. The other.....
I forget the rest but your mother is a whore.
It's walking like a duck and quacking like a duck.
So it's not a EULA or LAEU at all. It's a duck.
No. It'll be a MULA. Middle User License Agreement. An Ubuntu employee will have to drop by your house and click through the agreement...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Don't listen to CaptainPatient, I have it on good authority that he's a plant from the People's Front of Judea.
That's not 'use' as defined in this context. That's called distribution. Sniffing the coke is use, selling it is distribution. Cutting it and selling it is not use. It is still distribution.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
...ducks...
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
LAfEU (pronounced life)
So what your saying is it's about time the people obsessing over EULA got a LAfEU.
Meh, Still looks more like laughy you.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Do I have to read the article in order to proceed replying on Slashdot?!? If I do, it's not Slashdot no matter what you call it.