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. 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.

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.

Firefox video download helper