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Google claims ownership of all
content posted via Google Chrome.

Quote:

11. Content license from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which 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 license to reproduce,
adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the
Services. This license 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.

11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom
Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.

11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your
Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to
the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these actions.

11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.

ETA: Google claims to be in the process of removing this language from the license, but I'm going to check it fairly carefully if I ever do decide to
try their browser.



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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

per google, this is boilerplate language that goes into any and all products.. it's the 'google liscense'.

I think that makes it worse.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Google copy-pastes their license from everything else only everything they do. One of these days it will bite them on the ass.
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead

Looks like they just got nibbled, then.
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

Good thing I just switched to SeaMonkey (I finally got it working right -- it was NoScript that screwed me up all those months ago) so I'm in no particular
hurry to try a new browser again.

Has anyone brought this to the attention of the Register or any of the other online IT news outlets? Or hell, the regular news outlets?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I think the http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7597699.stm]BBC count Bob.

Google has already asserted that this was a mistake of using standard boilerplate which they use for their Youtube/Google Video/Google Maps stuff. They have
claimed they are going to reword the language and that the changes they implement will be retroactive to everyone who downloaded a copy of Chrome.

Still. I'm happy with Firefox 3 for now.

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Epsilon

Quote:Google has already asserted that this was a mistake of using standard boilerplate which they use for their Youtube/Google Video/Google Maps stuff.

And http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/04 ... ula_terms/]here's the Register story...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Well, looks like it's been hammered down, then. I'm curious, though, about Matt Cutts' implication that he snarked at people for first bringing it
up... anyone know where that was? Because I'm interested in seeing what he initially said, and what justifications he might have thrown out.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.