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 Khaine
join:2003-03-03
Australia | reply to B
Re: Mozilla Firefox Requires EULA?? said by B:KhaineBOT, I don't know much about the MPL, but I believe the Bugzilla thread groups it with the GPL as a REDISTRIBUTION license, not an end-user license. This odious new EULA thing may or may not be compatible with the MPL, GPL, or both -- I don't know. Which brings us to another issue -- is Fireweasel NOT tri-licensed like Mozilla proper, but merely dual-licensed? That is, no GPL license? SNIP -- B Yeah the MPL may only be conisdered on the source code, but how can you lose rights by simply running code through a compiler ? How do my rights granted on the source code, suddenly disapear because I chose to get a precompiled version?
To me that doesn't make sence, as a binary distrobution, is just machine code. It may not be easy to read, but is still code.
I would not care if they added a simple disclaimer stating that the Mozilla Foundation accepts no liability for any possible damages, either directly or indirectly incurred through the use of this program. | |
BPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-28 | said by Khaine:Yeah the MPL may only be conisdered on the source code, but how can you lose rights by simply running code through a compiler? You don't lose rights if YOU run the code through a compiler, but apparently you lose rights if you allow THEM to compile it for you. I THINK the EULA only applies if you download a binary from Mozilla.org. Sure it's machine code, but it's not the source code in which the program is written and from which Mozilla compiles it. Going by the original EULA proposal, they may already be including non-MPL code in Fireweasel binaries, but who knows.
I would not care if they added a simple disclaimer stating that the Mozilla Foundation accepts no liability for any possible damages, either directly or indirectly incurred through the use of this program.
I completely agree (though the FSF might not). I think that's basically what mers2 was getting at, too. So we'll have to see.
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said by Khaine: Yeah the MPL may only be conisdered on the source code, but how can you lose rights by simply running code through a compiler ? How do my rights granted on the source code, suddenly disapear because I chose to get a precompiled version? The version compiled by Mozilla.org includes copywrited materials like the logo and the artwork. If you compile firefox for yourself you get different non-copywrited logos. Thats the only thing I can think of. | |
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