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Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by quadrangle on Friday October 04, 2013 @02:08PM (#6496933)
Firefox is NOT non-free, period.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#MPL-2.0

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Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by pslam on Friday October 04, 2013 @02:46PM (#6497159)
No, there are disputes over this, and it's exactly why there is Iceweasel in Debian:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...

It's not really a big deal, but the trademark restriction does mean you can't just redistribute Firefox as-is. Whether you count that as non-free is subjective.

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Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by quadrangle on Monday October 07, 2013 @01:14PM (#6509659)
I agree there's some subjectivity but "you can't just redistribute Firefox as-is" is NOT subjective. That is flat out wrong. You can redistribute Firefox as-is. What you can't do is redistribute modified Firefox and keep the name.
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