Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed 312
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.'"
Re:My primary question... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:My primary question... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My primary question... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
So true (Score:3, Funny)
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.
I got it (Score:5, Funny)
License Agreement for Mozilla End-users.
What, no good?
Re:End User License Agreement (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:End User License Agreement (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:In order to read this message (Score:5, Funny)
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...
Re:My primary question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:not a EULA eh? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:End User License Agreement (Score:5, Funny)
...ducks...
Re:LAfEU as in beer (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:My primary question... (Score:4, Funny)
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.