Re: [gNewSense-users] RFC Firefox Free Software

[rek2GNU/Linux]

I think Rich is right on the the nail, there are many ways we could do this,
in the case we go with chopping that feature out  firebox we  could do 
it on the code itself and present a msg to the user
that warms him that to install such a plug in will break his freedom and 
jeopardize the system, I think it will be very rude to just drop the 
feature with out saying anything at all.
if the user decides to go for it.. then he will have to manually go to 
the plugin website and download it itself...no firefox intervention here.
I don't know if this is possible legally with out breaking some firefox 
legal something this is just and idea, I know debian had their issues 
also with firefox.

Cheers
Chris Fernandez
http://www.binaryfreedom.info


Paul O'Malley wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I have had a conversation on email with Richard Stallman about Firefox.
> Distilling it, we get to this:
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> The Firefox trademark issue is not important.  At worst it means we have
> to change the name of what we distribute.  The Firefox sources are free
> software, and we can use them.
>
> (The standard Firefox binaries are NOT free software, so we should not
> redistribute them or tell people where to get them.)
>
> But there are some real free software issues about Firefox.  The biggest
> one is that it is set up to offer downloads of non-free plug-ins from
> Mozilla's own site.
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> What do we want to do about this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul O'Malley
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