Bugzilla – Bug 436054
License agreement on first-startup
Last modified: 2020-04-05 18:12:23 UTC
On first start-up Firefox asks you to agree to a license popup. AFAIK this is not necessary anymore with Firefox 3.0.3 - at least it isn't seen on other distributions.
Let me summarize what I know about that: Ubuntu reenabled the EULA dialog for 3.0.2 (because it was mandatory to comply with Mozilla's trademark policy AFAIK). So Ubuntu"s community actually noticed that thing and some Linux distributions were discussing with Mozilla Corporation about that requirement and the form of the EULA. Mozilla Corporation meanwhile stated that they will change the EULA thing (I have no idea when that will hit the Mozilla source tree though). Firefox 3.0.3 still has it at least. If other distributions (I haven't checked) like Ubuntu or RedHat don't have that dialog they have most probably a special agreement with Mozilla Corporation. Since that is kind of a legal thing I'm not allowed to do negotiations for Novell with Mozilla Corporation and I'm not aware if anyone else did that. Reassigning to someone who probably can find out. It's not a technical issue obviously.
"After much pressure, Mozilla is removing the EULA from the Firefox welcome screen on Linux distributions, according to a recent Mozilla blog by Harvey Anderson, VP and general counsel of Mozilla." http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8123220578.html However, the EULA still pops up on the openSUSE-11.1-Beta3-GNOME-LiveCD-i386.iso Live CD. Please remove it.
It is still there in Beta 4. Please get rid of this! Should be possible since *buntu managed to do this as well ;) FYI: Ubuntu bugreport: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656 Fedora bugreport: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447661 Also please have a look at the privacy policy since there is a comment on Fedoras tracker which seems to be quite concerned.
Firefox 3.0.5 will get the revised EULA/about:rights thing as it landed on the upstream branch now. Unfortunately we can't apply that patch easily since it adds locale strings and as Firefox' locale system works it needs every locale updated for it (there is no en-US fallback mechanism). It might be doable by a dirty workaround though.
I agree it would be nice to get rid of this asap. This is the kind of thing users get angry about... :/
*** Bug 445345 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
EULA is removed in Factory now. People will get a about:rights toolbar notification which points to the new document.