Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox
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Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a 'Terms of Use' policy — a first for the

From the new terms:

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I’m not 100% sure how Firefox gets included into distros (e.g. licensing, etc.).

    I think it’s worth me making a clarification on this because I was thinking about it early this morning.

    Mozilla is making a similar distinction to their pre-built executable as Microsoft does with VS Code. Microsoft distributes VS Code binaries under a non-free (libre) license whereas their source code is licensed under MIT. VSCodium fills that gap by taking their source code and compiling it under MIT. The two versions are more-or-less the same and extensions work without any compatibility issues.

    I suspect in the near future, we’ll have something similar for Firefox where someone forks the project and keeps up with the upstream, releasing libre versions of it without the TOS.

    So to clarify: Firefox source code is still fully FOSS under their MPL2 license. Firefox executable is source available.