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Thunderbird "won't be adopting the firefox terms of use" (mastodon.online)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Mozilla's new TOU only covers pre built Firefox executables, not the source code.

Librewolf and Waterfox are good forks that would not be bound to the TOU.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Thanks for an actual answer

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You're welcome. I've been covering this issue since it's been announced. There are a number of accounts who are either deliberately spreading misinformation or who have a very poor understanding of how software licenses work.

Anyone who tells you that these terms are normal for a locally run browser is making the posts in bad faith.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for further explaining.

I’ve been super frustrated by lemmy posting vague info then going to watch some Linux and selfhosting YouTubers for them to only explain or gossip the issue for 20 minutes without alternatives.

So far trying librefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Librewolf btw.

I've personally moved to Waterfox and very much enjoying the experience, with a few hiccups.

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