[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there some other set of rules that governs Firefox extensions > (allowed and unallowed purposes of a FF extension)? Or, do they fall > under modifications?
An extension you write from scratch and not distributed along with Firefox can be under any license, free or proprietary (for example, the Yahoo and Google toolbars are proprietary code). If you're talking about the code in someone else's extension you'd have to ask the author. If the extension is not explicitly under an Open Source license of some kind then it is legally proprietary until the author tells you otherwise. If you're distributing your extension separately, what you want it to do is totally up to you (governed by whatever laws apply: distributing viruses is illegal, etc). Mozilla does have policies about what they're willing to host at addons.mozilla.org, which have as much to do with how the developer interacts with the community as they do with what the addon itself actually does: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Policy If you're wanting to package this with Firefox and redistribute it as a bundle then you need approval from Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html). _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
