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
    12·
    5 hours 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:

    • heavydust@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      4 hours ago

      All these terms are about the source code and the one who receives it or not.

      The equivalent would be the MPL for Firefox, which, guess what, does not prevent the user from doing anything with the source code.

      Now let’s go back to talking about the ToS shit because you’re confused, talking about software license which is irrelevant here.

      • tyler@programming.dev
        1·
        18 minutes ago

        The person I replied to literally brought up the license. I’m not confused about anything. I’m here combating fake information spread by people like you who have zero clue what they’re talking about yet pretend to because they fall for rage bait (the original person who spread all of this is a literal known rage bait twitter account) and can’t admit they’re wrong.