Chris Remington ( @remington@beehaw.org ) MA to

Technology · 10 months ago

Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data

www.theverge.com

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Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data

www.theverge.com

Chris Remington ( @remington@beehaw.org ) MA to

Technology · 10 months ago

“We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible.”

Misunderstanding of legalese may have lead a lot of us down the wrong road.

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They do not get ownership, but a license to do what they want with it. Giving a license does not change ownership, yes they are correct with this.

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