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This clause explicitly separates the information they claim license over from the data collected in the Privacy Notice. This clause is more expansive—"information uploaded through Firefox" is basically anything in a HTTP request or a websocket.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

This is the press release. I do not believe there is concord between this language and the actual policy: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/

Hey FWIW, Vivaldi does not have anything like this language: https://vivaldi.com/privacy/vivaldi-end-user-license-agreement/

I have spent my night reading browser Terms and Privacy Policies. Why? Because I love you and hate myself, apparently.

So here's the deal: that "non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license" you're granting to Firefox/Moz when you upload data through it? It is boilerplate language. Pretty common actually!

But not in browsers. In fact, not a single browser ToS has anything resembling this provision.

Know what does?

Facebook
X
Instagram

I wonder why Mozilla would want to use the same language those platforms do.

Mozilla has updated their press release with the following clarification:

UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information type into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/

That is good to hear, but their reasoning makes no sense given that no other browser uses that language.