Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS
"Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat Mar 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM GMT, Frank Guthausen wrote:
>> If this questions affects the DFSG, Debian must take a position. The
>> obvious elephant in the room is the question whether Firefox can be
>> part of the official distribution. The compatibility question between
>> Mozilla ToS and DFSG needs to be enlightened by someone with more legal
>> expertise than me.
>
> Simple answer: these (awful) terms apply to *binaries* supplied by
> Mozilla, not source. So, Debian is unaffected.
I looked at about:buildconfig for Firefox ESR on Debian, and it says it
is built from a Mozilla source:
Source
Built from https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr128/rev/f3783ad20bf40a11fb4b7ed088236c1a9f7be362
So won't it be doing the same thing? i.e. collecting the same
information?
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