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by echoangle 477 days ago
That doesn’t make any sense. You’re not giving the license in the ToS to the program but to the company. But the company isn’t processing any data I enter into the browser. I run the browser myself and they never get access to the data.
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Right, but under US law you cannot give a license to a program. Only to people, or groups of people that we call a company. You’re giving Mozilla permission to implement the features in Firefox, since you can’t just give permission to Firefox.
But Firefox doesn’t need a license to give me a program that I can use to do stuff on my device. They only need a license if they get access to the data.
As I've said, I totally agree. But Mozilla’s lawyers don’t.