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The Latest on the Firefox EULA Matter - Update: Progress!

By Pamela Jones et al.

Mitchell Baker has posted on her blog a notice that Mozilla will let us know today what solution they've come up with for the Firefox EULA dispute:

Firefox without EULAs - Update

We're still working on this. There's been a bunch of helpful feedback. We appreciate this. We think we've integrated the feedback into something that's a good solution; different from out last version in both its essence and its presentation and content.

We've come to understand that anything EULA-like is disturbing, even if the content is FLOSS based. So we're eliminating that. We still feel that something about the web services integrated into the browser is needed; these services can be turned off and not interrupt the flow of using the browser. We also want to tell people about the FLOSS license - as a notice, not as as EULA or use restriction. Again, this won't block the flow or provide the unwelcoming feeling that one comment to my previous post described so eloquently.

We expect to have the materials that show this plan posted tomorrow morning.

So that sounds promising. I don't think the EULA content was FLOSS based, actually, and I'll show you why I don't think so. I hope it will be a positive contribution to the general discussion.

Full post as published by Groklaw on September 17, 2008 (boomark / email).