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What are the licensing models of apps in the Marketplace?

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Tom
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I ordered a FirefoxOS smartphone yesterday and inspected the Firefox marketplace for apps.

I was wondering where i can find the licenses for each APP.

Is there a standard license (MIT, BSD, GPL)?

I also searched the MDN but i found no information about licensing models. Neither open, nor closed source.

For example at F-Droid (which i used in past for Android) [solitaire][1] the license is Apache2.

The [solitaire at firefox' marketplace][2] has which license?

Only "Open Web Apps" are [mentioned here][3] but nothing in detail about licensing.

Does anyone knows about? 


 [1]: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=solitair&fdid=com.kmagic.solitaire
 [2]: https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/pasjanssolitaire
 [3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Marketplace/Options/Introduction
I ordered a FirefoxOS smartphone yesterday and inspected the Firefox marketplace for apps. I was wondering where i can find the licenses for each APP. Is there a standard license (MIT, BSD, GPL)? I also searched the MDN but i found no information about licensing models. Neither open, nor closed source. For example at F-Droid (which i used in past for Android) [solitaire][1] the license is Apache2. The [solitaire at firefox' marketplace][2] has which license? Only "Open Web Apps" are [mentioned here][3] but nothing in detail about licensing. Does anyone knows about? [1]: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=solitair&fdid=com.kmagic.solitaire [2]: https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/pasjanssolitaire [3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Marketplace/Options/Introduction

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Ralph Daub
Ralph Daub
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Hi Tom,

My initial assumption would be that the licensing depends on the developer and that you should contact them for more information.

I am contacting the Marketplace team to confirm if there is an easier way.

Thanks,

- Ralph

Ralph Daub
Ralph Daub
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Hi Tom,

It appears that this feature is not available. To find the licensing type of specific applications, you should contact the developer directly.

This tracking bug has more information, including discussions on this feature:

I hope you find this information useful. Please let us know if you have any other questions.

- Ralph

Tom
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Thanks for the answer!

Thats bad for me :(

i thought, having an input or select field for the license type when submitting content as usual at deviantart, f-droid or other platforms is more or less standard nowadays.

maybe i need to do my own marketplace ;-)

tom