Haileynot allowed to watch porn on Firefox anymore
Mozilla have been up to a lot of clown shit lately, but slapping SaaS terms on a piece of software which is distributed to end users, with these kinds of overbearing and categorically inapproriate terms, has to be the clowniest. Fire these lawyers
Andres@hailey I don't even get my firefox from mozilla; I get it from debian. So I think I'm still allowed to watch porn?
fraggle@Andres4NY @hailey good news, DFSG clause 6 guarantees your right to watch porn
aspraggEdit: Outdated; AUP removed, see downthread
@fraggle @Andres4NY @hailey #DFSG clause 6 means that any software packaged for #Debian guarantees your right to watch porn. However, if this is now the case, it seems likely to me that new releases of #Firefox will no longer be able to be packaged for Debian.
It also means that Firefox is also no longer #FreeSoftware by the #fsf 's definition, as it no longer meets Freedom 0 - "The freedom to run the program for any purpose".
Sad, sad day. 😢
@aspragg please catch up with recent developments before you spread misinformation
@fraggle Sorry, what did I miss?
Is this not the new Firefox AuP?
Or was it, briefly, and now it's changed again?
There are a lot of replies in the thread, I could have skimmed one or two.
@aspragg yes it has since been updated. But they never changed the license.
Sorry, bit grumpy this morning and didn't mean to take it out on you
@fraggle So, Firefox wasn't being released under a combination of the MPL and the AuP? If the AuP wasn't part of the way the software was licensed to users, what was it's purpose?
And... if the AuP wasn't part of the way Firefox was being licensed, why did the AuP need to be updated at all?
I must have not had enough coffee yet today, this is confusing me more than if seems like it should.
@aspragg an AuP is not a software license. Much of the confusion here comes from exactly this - incompetent lawyers mixing up software licensing ("what you can do with this software on your own computer") with terms of service ("what you're allowed to do with our online service that we run"). To Mozilla's credit they have now recognized this was a mistake and removed references to the AuP