Cheapskates signing up to use Firefox under Ubuntu were shocked to find the hippie outfit demanding they agree to an end user licence agreement.

This obviously caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the degenerate freeloaders who wanted to use second rate software to avoid paying for the real thing.

Exactly why there should be a license at all for software that just wants to be free remains a mystery.

Now the grand wazoos behind Firefox have put their hands up and admitted that, yes, the content of the license agreement is wrong, saying that it is 'clear that the code is governed by FLOSS licenses, not the typical end user license agreement language that is in the current version.  We created a license that points to the FLOSS licenses, but we’ve made a giant error in not getting this to Ubuntu, other distributors, and posted publicly for review.  We’ll correct this asap.'

"We've made a giant error" admitted Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, responding to the appearance of the EULA when a user fires up Firefox for the first time on the latest version of Ubuntu.

"We have shot ourselves in the foot here given the old, wrong content.  So I hope we can have a discussion on this point, but I doubt we’ll have a good one until we fix the other problems. We take this very seriously and are working hard to fix it."

Which is nice. X

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