Most people don’t yet see how sinister Google is. Maybe this will start to change that. The click-through license for Google’s new browser Chrome includes this:
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
. . .
11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.
So anything you do on Chrome, you are giving to Google. If you’re not authorized to give it to Google, you are in violation of the license.
(Via LGF.)
UPDATE: Wikipedia says that you can bypass the license by downloading the source and building it yourself. (Of course, that’s Wikipedia, so I can’t warrant that it’s true.) If so, I hope that someone will set up a site to distribute the non-license version.
UPDATE: Google says that this section was a cut-and-paste mistake, and they are removing it. I don’t really buy the explanation, but I’m glad they’re changing it.
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