2008-09-04 by 

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Early adopters everywhere were quick to download Google Chrome -- an open source browser, based on the WebKit rendering engine. After some initial good-natured pranks about the quirks of the new browser, people are suddenly acting cautious. A number of personal blogs and media outlets are expressing concern about Chrome's end-user license agreement (EULA). Here is an excerpt from the browser's terms of service (which are quite similar to other EULAs for Google services): 11. Content license from you 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. 11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services. 11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these actions. 11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license. In other words, you give Google a license to use your images, designs, and writing for free, if you post any of them via Google Chrome. Most likely, the legalese will change in the coming days, but for now people are asking, "what happened to 'Do no Evil'". Source. UPDATE: Call me prescient if you'd like, but Google has changed the text of Chrome's EULA, giving the rights over "any Content which you submit, post or display on or through" back to the users.

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