Stallman doubts the cleanliness of Firefox

In a freshly published interview, the founder of the free software movement, the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, doubted that Firefox could actually be called "free software." From the very beginning, he explained to all the well-known four signs of truly free software, but we will translate the fourth question from the interview in full:

- Do you consider such programs as OpenOffice and Firefox to free software?

- OpenOffice is free software, and it has been like this since its inception under this name.
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Firefox is a strange case, because the source was originally distributed as free software, but binary distributions were distributed unfreely by the Mozilla Foundation. They were not free for two reasons: they included a non-free Talkback module for which there were no source codes (even Mozilla did not have them); and because they supplied the distribution with EULA [user license agreement].

I think that both of these problems have already been resolved, so maybe the Firefox binary distributions are now free.

By the way, the interview is generally quite interesting. In it, Stallman also shares his thoughts on the cooperation of the CIA and Facebook, on the netbook EeePC, etc.