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Re: [Legal] Firefox not truly Free?



As I recall, there was language about "official builds" of Firefox.

So it wouldn't seem to be binding on us.

-- John

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:51:04AM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> I don't know what to make of this statement:
> 
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39189475,00.htm
> [quote]
> The main disadvantage of the deal with Google is that native language 
> versions of Firefox are not permitted to change the default search 
> engine to one that is more useful for searching Web pages in a 
> particular language.[/quote]
> 
> I don't want to be a chicken little, but in what sense is this statement 
> valid?  It seems to have extraordinary implications, not in the least 
> that Firefox and Mozilla would have to be considered Non-Free.
> 
> Is it merely advistory or a request?  I know there was some talk about 
> Debian Thunderbird; here's some more fuel for the fire!
> 
> What gives?
> 
> [If this gets moved to d-l@l.d.o, cc me, b/c I'm not on that list.)
> 
> 
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