1242566 - Ubuntu builds can't show about:rights

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Distributions, defect)

Description

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Bug 1233687, comment 22:
(In reply to Chris Coulson from comment #22)
> > * Make sure that enabling MOZILLA_OFFICIAL doesn't trigger undesired
> > behavior on Ubuntu.
> >   Alessio & Chris checked through what it enables and it seemed ok.
> >   The about:rights notification should not show on Ubuntu, but can be
> > disabled by a pref.
> 
> On this last point - I believe that the about:rights notification is
> actually meant to be shown in Ubuntu, and it was shown at one point (IIRC it
> was displayed via a button in an infobar). But having looked at this over
> the last couple of days, I discovered that it got moved to the start page in
> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c950d2ea4c5b. As we use our own
> start page in Ubuntu, we obviously don't show it anymore and this has gone
> unnoticed for nearly 3 years :/

Comment 1

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

I think that brings up the more general question of how partner builds should show the about:rights notification if they change the home page should show about:rights.

Mike, any requirements here?

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

To the best of my knowledge, there's no legal requirement for us to show about:rights, as it's a courtesy notice, and doesn't require consent like a EULA or similar.  That said, we should consider this and figure out a real policy.  cc-ing Shane for context.

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

We barely show this anymore (occasionally in a snippet)

So not an issue