{"id":716,"date":"2008-12-16T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2008-12-16T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:38:18","slug":"aboutrights-in-firefox-305","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2008\/12\/16\/aboutrights-in-firefox-305\/","title":{"rendered":"about:rights in Firefox 3.0.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder that with the release today of Firefox 3.0.5, we&#8217;re no longer displaying a <abbr title=\"End User License Agreement\">EULA<\/abbr> on install, and the Mac <abbr title=\"Disk iMaGe\">DMG<\/abbr> files will not display the EULA on mounting. (yay!) Instead, we&#8217;ll be displaying an infobar that makes people aware of the about:rights text, which outlines how Firefox is licensed, the first time Firefox 3.0.5 (and later) is run. <\/p>\n<p>Please note that public distributions of Firefox are still governed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/foundation\/trademarks\/policy.html\">Mozilla Trademark Policy<\/a>, which is referenced in the about:rights text. If you&#8217;re looking to distribute customized versions of Firefox, you should contact us at partners@mozilla.com for more information.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re currently repacking distributions, please ensure you do not incorporate the EULA with Firefox 3.0.5 (and greater) installers or DMG files moving forward. <\/p>\n<p>Additional information on these changes can be found at the URLs below:<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lockshot.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/17\/licensing-proposal\/ \">original licensing proposal<\/a>, as outlined by Harvey Anderson, following feedback from his postings on September <a href=\"http:\/\/lockshot.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/15\/firefox-eula-in-linux-distributions\/\">15th<\/a>, and Mitchell&#8217;s postings on September <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lizardwrangler.com\/2008\/09\/15\/ubuntu-firefox-and-license-issues\/\">15th<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lizardwrangler.com\/2008\/09\/16\/firefox-without-eulas-update\/\">16th<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=456439 \">Bug 456439<\/a> for adding the about:rights text and a &#8220;Know Your Rights&#8221; infobar on firstrun<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=462254 \">Bug 462254<\/a> for removing the EULA from the installer and DMG files<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, and I&#8217;ll do my best to answer them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>updated:<\/strong> added links to additional posts from Harvey and Mitchell to provide more information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder that with the release today of Firefox 3.0.5, we&#8217;re no longer displaying a EULA on install, and the Mac DMG files will not display the EULA on mounting. (yay!) Instead, we&#8217;ll be displaying an infobar that makes people aware of the about:rights text, which outlines how Firefox is licensed, the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-mozilla","category-my-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}