Re: About Firefox licenses

[Graziano]

Il giorno ven, 15/01/2010 alle 17.49 +0000, alexus / dotcommon ha
scritto:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:50:26 +0800, Koh Choon Lin <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >>> so.. if all the FF licenses are free, FF 3.0 is also totally free???
> >>
> >> not exactly...
> >>
> >> the 3-licensed FF source code is free software, but
> >>
> >> the binary FF released by Mozilla are not freely redestribuable
> >> (including trademark and copyrighted stuff) so they are not free
> >>
> >> FF includes some non-free plugins (plugins with a non free software
> >> license) like adobe reader and flash
> >>
> >> FF recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons
> >>
> >> FF suggest using non free formats
> >>
> >> so... please AVOID USING FF, use GNU/IceCat instead!
> > 
> > Or Debian IceWeasel.
> 
> please correct me if i am wrong... 
> 
> but i remember that IceWeasel is exactly the same code of FF, just another
> name and logo to avoid trademarks and freely redistibuable binaryies



true, only the gNewSense mipsel Iceweasel version has been patched to
not recommend proprietary software.


> 
> for this reason, IceWeeasel do the same as FF recommending non-free
> software as plug-ins and addons (for example, pointing to the Mozila addons
> site) and suggesting using non free formats...
> 
> so... the best choice (in terms of freedom) is GNU/IceCat
> 
> regards
> al3xu5 / dotcommon