Mozilla Weave’s peculiar Terms of Service
Mar. 3rd, 2009 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haggholmNot only do I regularly read user agreements; I also very occasionally respond to them.
Update: The reply is now posted here.
From: Petter Häggholm
To: labs@mozilla.com
Subject: Mozilla Weave TOSFrom http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/weave/tos/:
"2.2. [...] By submitting, posting or displaying the User Content you give Mozilla a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to store, transmit, reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute User Content for the sole purpose of providing the Services to you. “User Content” means digital content provided by you that is stored on, manipulated and/or transmitted to or from Mozilla's servers by means of your use of the Service (including but not limited to bookmarks, preferences, passwords)."
I'll sign up with a throwaway password, and I don't particularly care about the privacy of my bookmarks in and of themselves (they are not sensitive information), but why, exactly, do you reserve the right to "publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute" my passwords? Either I misread your legalese, in which case I'd appreciate a clarification, or this seems a very peculiar right! I would very much like my passwords *not* to be publicly displayed and distributed, let alone performed.
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Petter Häggholm
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Date: 2009-03-04 11:32 am (UTC)All I really want to do is parse your personal e-mail for keywords...
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Date: 2009-03-04 11:33 am (UTC)