Hello
folks,
First, a
quick
intro. I
am a
director
working
for
Mozilla,
and I have
been a
Debian
developer
for a long
time. I
managed
the
Iceweasel
→ Firefox
renaming
back in
the day:
https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/
and the
Debian/Rust
trademark
discussion.
Thanks for
the input
about the
TOU and
the
connection
with the
DFSG.
I would
like to
point out
that
Mozilla
has
published
an update
about the
Terms of
Use:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/.
As
described
in
Mozilla’s
communication,
due to
changes in
laws in
various
places
where
Mozilla
operates
(particularly
California
and the
EU),
having a
clear
Terms of
Use in the
product
became a
necessity
(all other
major
browsers
also have
terms,
open
source or
not).
In
parallel,
Firefox is
relying
more and
more on
remote
services
to operate
(downloading
models for
translation,
crash
reporting
with
potential
PII,
telemetry,
new tab
page,
etc.).
This is
why we had
to put
this in
place.
Our
Privacy
Notice
comprehensively
describes
what data
Firefox
processes,
collects,
and
shares.
The data
sent to
our Sync
servers is
encrypted.
The data
collected
as part of
telemetry
is clearly
documented
here:
https://dictionary.telemetry.mozilla.org/..
Now, the
license of
Firefox,
MPL,
hasn’t
changed.
It is
still an
OSI/DFSG-compliant
license.
The TOU
doesn’t
violate
any of the
DFSG
terms, as
it doesn’t
(and
won’t)
discriminate
against
any
category.
However,
we reserve
the right
to block
access to
some of
our online
services
in case of
abuse.
Cheers,
Sylvestre
