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Yeah, but also common licenses are set by the distributor. (which they're also evidently free to secretly change?)

I want the other side of the deal: a default license implicit in the existence of software that can't be traded away without an explicit contract that involves something like an exchange of money, which a federal agency will safeguard against violations of. If an extension changes its behavior nefariously people should go to jail. If Google safeguards an extension that changes it's behavior nefariously then Google should go to company jail. (or, like, be fined and forced to comply).

(admittedly, this is hopeless idealism. But still.)




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