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HappinessNow
August 14th, 2009, 07:55 PM
http://www.mozilla.org/about/policies/

(Also avaiable directly through your Firefox web browser: Help>About Mozilla Firefox>click on Licensing Information)

schauerlich
August 14th, 2009, 07:58 PM
Um. Is there a reason you felt the need to paste it all in here instead of, I don't know, linking to it on Mozilla's site?

HappinessNow
August 14th, 2009, 08:00 PM
Um. Is there a reason you felt the need to paste it all in here instead of, I don't know, linking to it on Mozilla's site?
Is there a link to it?...if so post it and I will edit the OP.

MaxIBoy
August 14th, 2009, 08:00 PM
Too long, didn't read.

But I know about the MPL. The gist of it is that modified versions cannot use Firefox branding without approval. Otherwise it's basically just a copylefty free software license.

HappinessNow
August 14th, 2009, 08:02 PM
Too long, didn't read.

But I know about the MPL. The gist of it is that modified versions cannot use Firefox branding without approval. Otherwise it's basically just a copylefty free software license.
I was just wondering how many people have actually read it.

pizza-is-good
August 14th, 2009, 08:05 PM
I haven't.
I hardly ever read user licenses (shame on me)... Who does?

The only ones that I read are the ones that are somehtin like:
"Use this program as much as you want, edit it all you want, distribute it all you want, in fact, do whatever you want with it. All we ask is that you send us whatever you modified so that we can make it better"
Those are actually worth reading a 100 times over.:lolflag:

KiwiNZ
August 14th, 2009, 08:06 PM
Edited OP to add just link

HappinessNow
August 14th, 2009, 08:07 PM
Edited OP to add just linkThanks KiwiNZ. :P

itreius
August 14th, 2009, 08:07 PM
No, I never read application licenses unless something's fishy about an app from the very beginning (but even that was only back in the days when I used Windows, now I rarely if ever try a new app).

Xbehave
August 14th, 2009, 08:35 PM
No and as i never clicked though it, e.g i just installed fedora, does it even apply to me?

the licesne that applies to you is the Mozilla Public License (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License), it is DFSG compatible and OSI approved, that is enough for me to trust it. The reason the license page is so long is because parts of the code are available under different licenses, but that is all about redistribution not just use of the binary which the MPL (http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html) covers.

Firestem4
August 14th, 2009, 08:55 PM
I admit I have not read the Mozilla license although ever since the Google Chrome debauchery with Googles EULA/TOS, i tend to read these more and more often.

gOLdenHaWK3D
August 16th, 2009, 02:51 PM
haha! :P