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  • Do the authors of add-ons have copyrights

    From micky@NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com to alt.comp.software.firefox on Mon Jul 21 21:51:07 2025
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    Do the authors of add-ons have copyrights with regard to them?

    Or is it legal, and ethical, for Firefox to incorporate code or
    techniques from add-ons into FF itself, whenever they want to?
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jul 22 07:17:54 2025
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    On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:51:07 -0400, micky wrote:

    Do the authors of add-ons have copyrights with regard to them?

    Or is it legal, and ethical, for Firefox to incorporate code or
    techniques from add-ons into FF itself, whenever they want to?

    Obviously that depends on the licence under which the add-on was released.

    Do you have a specific example in mind, or are you just talking generally?
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  • From Dave Royal@dave@dave123royal.com to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jul 22 08:49:17 2025
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    micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> Wrote in message:

    Do the authors of add-ons have copyrights with regard to them?

    Theoretically, yes. Or rather parts of it could be.

    Or is it legal, and ethical, for Firefox to incorporate code or
    techniques from add-ons into FF itself, whenever they want to?

    Legality would depend on copyright, licensing, and patents. Ethics
    is subjective.
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    Remove numerics from my email address.
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  • From micky@NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Jul 22 22:45:25 2025
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    In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:17:54 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:51:07 -0400, micky wrote:

    Do the authors of add-ons have copyrights with regard to them?

    Or is it legal, and ethical, for Firefox to incorporate code or
    techniques from add-ons into FF itself, whenever they want to?

    Obviously that depends on the licence under which the add-on was released.

    Do you have a specific example in mind, or are you just talking generally?

    Yes, I do, but I want to write about it later with a whole long post,
    and after I write to the author if possible..

    This is a Firefox Add-on, and I thought the author's address would be
    listed. (Maybe I'm thinking of Android apps.) I haven't checked other add-ons to see if they never list the author's address, or if they do
    and this one is shy.
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