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The following was not ment to be included in the installer, but was meant for his viewing and acknowledging only. The creator of “Video DownloadHelper” obviously cares enough to make his work look as legitimate as possible, however did not care enough to review the licensing documentation which he was including with his work.

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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.

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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 “”. After all, why would one go through the trouble of providing legal documentation protecting their rights and setting bounds for the end user’s rights, if they didn’t care about what was done with their work. 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 work’s creator to pay the same attention and heed to the legal documentation which they are including with their work. That said, I found some topics of interest in the legal documentation for Video DownloadHelper’s 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. has made available legal licenses to be applied to works created at the creators digression, which permit the end user to use, modify, and redistribute the software creation within the set boundaries and limitations of the legal document of the creators choosing.

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.

#Converthelper review for free#

Typically when software publishers desire to make their works available online, whether for free or for a fee, they seek to publish legal documentation for inclusion of the application clearly indicating that the program is copyrighted, and to identify their terms and conditions of modification to their work by third parties, including any limitations or bounds set by them.

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A very popular addon extension for Mozilla Firefox, Video DownloadHelper, allows users to easily save and convert media originally embedded into web content into a file stored on their local machine for offline playback.