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Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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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.

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[–] excral@feddit.org 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Does having a ToS mean that Firefox is no longer FOSS? Freedom 0 of FOSS is: "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose". Isn't that violated if you can only use the software under the condition of accepting terms of service?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Arguably no. It's not "you may not use this if you don't agree." It's "the software does this and here is your warning."

Still incredibly fucked.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

Firefox is FOSS, Mozilla's backend services are not.

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think they mean Mozilla services such as ai, sync, etc. The browser itself probably doesn't fall under it.