> Mozilla released a "Terms of Use" document for Firefox, a first for the open-source browser. That might sound like business as usual, but [...] That's not bu

> Mozilla released a "Terms of Use" document for Firefox, a first for the open-source browser. That might sound like business as usual, but [...] That's not business as usual, that's a contradiction! Open Source software doesn't impose terms of use. Criterion 6 of the OSI's Open Source Definition document: No discrimination against fields of endeavor. [0] The FSF's Four Freedoms, analogous to the OSI's Open Source Definition, has a similar requirement: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0). [1][2] It's true that Mozilla's terms of use nonsense was limited to the Firefox executable binary, and did not apply to the source-code, but still, there's a reason the community sees this as a betrayal. We shouldn't have to work around this kind of thing in the first place. It's not 'confusion', Mozilla. The backlash from your community is because you're betraying your professed values, not because your community is stupid. [0] https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207456