Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #269656
  2. Comment #435

Comment 435 for bug 269656

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Creak (romain-failliot) wrote :

The solutions presented here by Mozilla seems definitely better!

I might have missed something important, so please correct me if I'm wrong. I wonder about the "non-free" status of the Firefox binary. As everyone said, considering the Ubuntu code, only free binaries have the right to be in the main repository. So what for Firefox?

I also wonder about the motivations of Mozilla to build a closed binary? Their web services really can't be opened? If I understood well, the AGPL licence is maid to ensure web services' openness.

I don't know for you, but all this "non-free" stuff about Firefox strongly reminds me the XFree86 project that didn't want to hear the opinion of those "zealots". It ended, as you know it, with a far better project in many ways: Xorg.