Comment 162 for bug 269656

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Hew (hew) wrote :

According to http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components :

"The restricted component is reserved for software that is very commonly used, and which is supported by the Ubuntu team even though it is not available under a completely free licence."

This sounds just like the branded firefox browser, so it seems necessary to move it to restricted.

My preference is also to use Iceweasel as the default browser for Intrepid. I don't think there would be much confusion in a switch (as long as it's labelled something like "Iceweasel Web Browser"). Debian have already successfully performed the switch, so it should be even easier for Ubuntu to do this. A EULA just isn't appropriate for the default installation of free software.