Il giorno ven, 20/03/2009 alle 18.31 -0400, Ali Gunduz ha scritto: > I think the DownThemAll! addon in the IceCat addon list may not be > free despite its free license. Upon installation and restarting of > IceCat, the addon forces a license agreement window (you can find the > text of user agreement window atteched) with "Accept" and "Decline" > options.
I think this windows is basically a way to inform users about the 'Privacy Notice' ... more than a license agreement or EULA... > Declining the agreement pops a warning of "Declining will > cause DownThemAll! to be uninstalled. Continue?" and, if you proceed, > the addon gets uninstalled. This warning seems more to be a license agreement implicitly related to the GPL (it can not be related to the privacy notice because a notice not is a license to accept or not...). Now, the GPL does not require to be explicitly accepted but (I think) neither does not allow such a "agreement window". On the other hand, if you do not agree with the license (does not matter which license) you should not install and use the software. So... I think this behaviour might be considered acceptable. > [WARNING: When I proceeded with the > uninstallation after the warning, the IceCat crashed with no session > history saved. Be aware of this if you plan to recreate this > situation.] Uhm... I cannot say anything about it... I have accepted the installation since the first warning... > I suspect that this "agreement requirement" may prevent the addon from > being free although the context of the agreement doesn't impose any > extra restrictions. My opinion is that the addon may be considered free (see above). Anyway, but I am not a lawyer nor a GPL expert... and I agree that this situation may be uncertain... > If this is the case, then there needs to be an additional testing > procedure of the screening for the free addon list. Maybe... What is your idea? alexus -- Support free software! Join FSF: http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7535 You will receive a bootable USB membership card with gNewSense Live! -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
