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Google Chrome EULA = Ouch!

By Steven Matthews

Via the Register:

Section 11.1 of the new Google Browser Chrome’s EULA:

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.

Not sure any of us want to grant 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 we “submit, post or display on or through” their new browser.

I’m sure Mr. Fraser can critique more eloquently, so I’ll just quote Jon Stewart, “whaaaaaaaaaa?”

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 03, 2008 (boomark / email).