Google Chrome
And while world+dog (and the blogosphere) is abuzz with how slick Google Chrome is and how safe / fast it is…
It pays to read Slashdot and The Register.
17 RSS feeds, and only 2 articles mentioning the breach of privacy.
Essentially, there is a clause in the Google Chrome EULA (end-user license agreement) that you sign over all your content creation and modification rights over to them.
Section 11.1:
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that 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 licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence 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.
Can someone scream “copyright infringement” now?
Further information: The Register
Update: Ars Technica reports that Google has come back to the web with a revised EULA that removes that clause, or at least revises it.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Actually since the source code is available at chromium.org under a BSD license, you can just checkout the source, strip the Google branding and you got a clean version of browser with no EULA hindrances. I suspect Google will change the EULA by the time the final release rolls around.