El 05/10/11 06:55, Sam Geeraerts dijo: > Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > >Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> writes: > > > >>This addon looks interesting > >> > >>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disconnect/ > >> > >>But despite Mozilla's site says it's under MPL, I checked the code and it > >>doesn't mention a license anywhere (except the copyright notices -all rights > >>reserved) and the javascript used is obfuscated/minified... so not very much > >>free IMO. > > > >Right, I took a look at its "source" code and I see different: > > > >/* Copyright 2011 WebMynd Corp. All rights reserved. */ > > > >This is not a free addon. > > "All rights reserved" in the copyright notice doesn't necessarily > mean that it's non-free, because it seems that plenty of people still > use that phrase by default even though it has pretty much lost its > meaning. Of course, if there's no other license notice included in or > added to the source (I haven't looked at it) then we can't assume > it's free. But you could ask the author if he meant to publish it as > free software, because AMO indicates s/he might have.
but the code is obfuscated and the "terms of use"[0] aren't much friendly either... i'm cc'ing the info address. disconnect people (!): can you clarify if your addon is free software? otherwise please fix the "licensed as MPL" on the mozilla addons page because is misleading :) [0]: http://disconnect.me/terms -- Salud! Nicolás Reynolds, xmpp:[email protected] omb:http://identi.ca/fauno OTR: C0CB1F0F 01DB5E18 2D634C2A A4626858 E7C7C3A2 http://parabolagnulinux.org http://endefensadelsl.org "Freedom [...] is messy" ~ Eben Moglen
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