Now that the initial euphoria over Chrome has subsided, there’s some consternation in the tech community over the terms of Google’s end user licensing agreement for the browser.
From Google:
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.
I’m not sure I want to give Google a “perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free” license to do whatever it wants with any material I post or transmit through Chrome.
If Google wants to use my musings and ponderings for commercial reasons, then it can ask me politely and mail me a hefty check, thank you very much.
I’m sure it won’t be long before someone from Google publicly assures us that this entry isn’t really a large deal, it’s standard boilerplate, etc.
And I’m equally sure it won’t be long before this passage is simply deleted from the EULA, as Google eventually realizes there’s in fact such a thing as bad publicity.
Sort of like the bad publicity that comes from security flaws being found in your new browser less than a day after release.
UPDATE: Yup, Google states the language is standard boilerplate, but will be removed regardless. I love it when a plan comes together.
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