Re: better privacy and add-on licenses

[Mithrandir]

crap0101 <crap0101 <at> riseup.net> writes:

> 
> Il giorno lun, 24/01/2011 alle 20.26 -0500, Kete ha scritto:
> > I can't find licenses for add-ons anymore. How can you tell? Here's 
> > betterPrivacy - 
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/
> 
> Also I can't find it in the addons page :)
> 
> Indeed, the license is not free.
> File LICENSE in the xpi's /content/ folder states:
> 
>         BetterPrivacy is freeware; Non-commercial use and distribution
>         only!
> 
>         
> bye
> 
>  

Some addons don't state the license on the webpage, but that doesn't always mean
they're non-free. Others use "Custom license" when it's really GPL.

Looks like we have to look at each addon's src code to be sure.

Regards.