817856 - Mozilla Firefox suggests proprietary or non-free addons via addon site

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Policy, defect)

Description

[Andrew]

The Mozilla addons website currently suggests proprietary software (and is shown in the about:addons page). The Mozilla Manifesto principles #2, #6 and #7 are relevant. [1]

Steps to reproduce:

* Open Firefox
* Enter about:addons in the location bar
* Type "interclue" in the search bar (or another non-free addon)
* Click Download. Firefox will install the software without human confirmation and displaying license details, including when the addon isn't open source.

Actual results:

Firefox and other Mozilla applications suggesting non-free software via addons.mozilla.org.

Expected results:

Mozilla should not steer users towards using proprietary or non-free software.

[1]: http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.en.html

Related discussion: http://archive09.linux.com/feature/155919

Disclosure: I have a previous bug report at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=817505

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/