Rather, we are focusing on the discrepancies between the creators attempts at making his work look as legitimate as possible.Īt the bottom of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE is where the eyebrow-raisers start to surface. The beginning or top of the legal agreement is where the normal license would begin, and as the creator has at least placed this wording from the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE of the Free Software Foundation, Inc., it has been omitted from this article below as the standard expected wording is beyond the scope of this article. Let us examine the legal document as found in the latest version (version 2.2 at the time of this posting) of ConvertHelper published by.
If a the creator of a work feels it sufficiently important and of great value to him to include legal documentation protecting their work while still permitting modifications and redistribution within set bounds, I would expect that works creator to pay the same attention and heed to the legal documentation which they are including with their work.Īfter all, why would one go through the trouble of providing legal documentation protecting their rights and setting bounds for the end users rights, if they didnt care about what was done with their work. That said, I found some topics of interest in the legal documentation for Video DownloadHelpers sister software package ConvertHelper which is required for the Mozilla Firefox addon Video DownloadHelper as it enables the extraction and transcoding of the common formats of embedded media. Having learned from experience, I typically keep my eyes prone to searching for anything out of the ordinary, as I have found that many software publishers attempt to sneak in legal agreements permitting 3rd party advertising and data harvesting software, which the average user would not notice if they are simply clicking through the installation.
When going through the installation process of software, I give great heed to the legal licenses displayed on the condition of installation and use. Understanding that, an organization known as Free Software Foundation, Inc. However they ultimately still want to get credit of their work if a third party does in fact modify their work for redistribution. It is very common for software creators to make their works available for free, and to even allow modification and redistribution of the modified version of their original creation.
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