Critics said the new terms implied Mozilla was asking users for the rights to whatever data they input or upload through Firefox.

Critics said the new terms implied Mozilla was asking users for the rights to whatever data they input or upload through Firefox.

  • tyler@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    You’ve literally never read over a license before have you? Here’s some text from the Apache License, V2 for you to compare:

    1. Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form.

    every piece of software you use has a license attached to it. If it doesn’t have a license attached to it then it’s not open source. Granting a license to a copy is a standard part of open source software. Here’s some from the MIT License:

    to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”),

    The GPL literally has a Terms and Conditions section to it! One of the most FOSS licenses out there lays out ToC to ensure that they’re followed. This is standard practice. The GPL also mentions “copy” 28 times, not including the word copyright. Here’s one of them: