Control: reassign -1 firefox On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 05:37:24PM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > Control: retitle -1 Are the Firefox Terms of Use suitable for Debian? > > > As described in Mozilla’s communication, due to changes in laws in > > various places where Mozilla operates (particularly California and the > > EU), having a clear Terms of Use in the product became a necessity (all > > other major browsers also have terms, open source or not). > > Sylvestre, your final parenthetical claim here appears to not be true > for the only other major web browser in Debian and therefore an easy > alternative for Debian to switch to now: chromium. > > Sylvestre, would Mozilla strongly object if Debian patched Firefox to > remove links to the Terms of Use and links to the Privacy Notice? > > It looks to me like we have a situation where the maintainer of > firefox-esr is a Mozilla employee and may be unwilling to take any > action on this issue. Meanwhile, this is an RC bug and firefox-esr is > eligible for automatic removal from Debian Testing which is causing a > burden on other Debian maintainers and bug fixers since other things > are marked for automatic removal because they depend on firefox-esr. I > think we'll need the Debian Release Team to weigh in on this issue > soon.
Actually, we don't, because ESR 128 doesn't have the code that shows the Terms of Use. Mike
