Re: Packaging unmodified Firefox binaries in a closed product

Frank Hecker <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:05:04 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
> Now, if they don't include the official mozilla installer, and use the 
> official binaries but packaged inside their own installer, the situation 
> gets more fuzzy.

Correct, that's exactly why I referred them to [email protected], 
because the public policy doesn't definitively address this case.

> I've just checked that mozilla.com only provides the installer on 
> windows, no zip files, so it's probably a correct interpretation to say 
> that only "Firefox Setup 3.5.2.exe" (at this point in time, exact 
> version changes frequently) may be redistributed freely, and not the 
> files it contains.

This is my interpretation as well.

Frank

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