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Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon.
You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
Update: See below in the thread for their clarification.
@mttaggart not seeing what’s objectionable about the quoted section
@copiesofcopies If I upload my artwork to anywhere via Firefox, have I just granted a royalty-free license to that intellectual property to Firefox, if they deem use of it is in my best interest in "interacting with online content?"
@mttaggart as I read it, you give them a limited license to use that content as needed to do what you’re using Firefox to do. I.e. if you’re uploading an image to a website, you authorize them to do so as you directed.
@copiesofcopies @mttaggart Yeah, that seems more correct.
The last line is pretty telling "..as you indicate with your use of Firefox".
If you didn't indicate that you wanted Firefox to take your artwork then Mozilla doesn't get that permission. They only get the permissions to do what you "indicate".
The other important part is "When you upload or input information through Firefox"
Basically it's just saying that if you indicate that you want to upload a photo to x website, by for example dragging an image into Firefox, then you give Firefox permission to send it to that website you are on.
To rephrase, when you upload through Firefox, you give Firefox the permission to do what you indicated, i.e. uploading.
The true meaning of the quote seem to have blown over @mttaggart 's head like a helium balloon.
@saphkey @copiesofcopies It didn't. Your interpretation does not require a "non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide license."
@mttaggart @saphkey non-exclusive because you can license your content to others too, royalty-free because Mozilla isn’t going to pay users to use its browser, worldwide because the user could be anywhere. All of those are in fact necessary, the first protects the user’s interests.
@copiesofcopies @mttaggart @saphkey the only thing that surprises me is the idea that Mozilla needs these rights in the first place when I run the browser locally. I am also not granting canonical those permissions for my Ubuntu to have a TCP stack, neither did I do for curl...
Firefox is not run as-a-service.
@NobodysNightmare @copiesofcopies @mttaggart Someone pointed out that they write "us", in that paragraph about uploading. Which I automatically asumed meant Firefox, but it probably means Mozilla.
So now I am a bit less sure of the interpretation.
Hopefully Mozilla sees people guessing at the interpretation and elaborates.
The rest of the document is very short and simple.