Mozilla most definitely has exclusive ownership of their property. Ask the people who've tried to repackage Firefox without fully stripping the branding, and ge

Mozilla most definitely has exclusive ownership of their property. Ask the people who've tried to repackage Firefox without fully stripping the branding, and get prodded by Mozilla's lawyers. Here it's a case of semantics, whether you're talking about the open-source software or the full package including services from Mozilla and the Firefox branding. Firefox as a whole is certainly proprietary to Mozilla, even if the code is not. I suspect the intent re: signal is similar, where the code is indeed open-source, but IIRC signal doesn't network with non-official clients? Probably best to avoid using the word "proprietary" because of the confusion/connotations, but I don't think it's entirely wrong.