I wish Philip Chee would post his opinion, I know he reads a lot of
gecko law
Gareth Hunt wrote:
I think this is what HJ found objectionable:
"Google grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and
license to use the object code of its Software on a single computer limited
strictly to non-commercial use only by you; provided that you do not (and
do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of,
reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any
source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or
otherwise transfer any right in the Software. You agree not to modify the
Software in any manner or form, or to use modified versions of the
Software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining
unauthorized access to Google services. You agree not to access Google
services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by
Google for use in accessing Google services."
Given that Mozilla products are released under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
(see http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/), are Google in breach of the licence in
not making the source for their extension(s) available? Or are extension
developers free to release code under any licence they please?
I'm not a lawyer and cannot pretend to understand this stuff. Does anyone
have any insight? (Also, is this going off-topic for the list?)
Cheers,
Gareth
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Subject: Re: [Project_owners] Google Browser Sync Settings extension
(Aaron, you there?)
HJ van Rantwijk wrote:
Oh dear, I can't help you any further, not after reading the license.
Heh. I didn't even read the license--I just downloaded the xpi to look at
the source; I didn't install it. Out of curiosity, what did you find
objectionable in the license?
Michael Buckley wrote:
I though that extensions could not be proprietary according to Mozilla
requirements about extension licenses.<
You're probably thinking of mozdev.org. Google Browser Sync isn't hosted
there, so it's not subject to mozdev rules.
Anyone else able to help?
-Eric
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