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  • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    It’s an open source browser based on Firefox with additional features and configuration tweaks.

    Except they recently made part of it proprietary and hid the source code for that, so most other people cannot actually build the same one.

    They claim they will make that part open source too, eventually, and it is due to behavior of another browser: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core/issues/62

    • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
      7·
      3 months ago

      They do say that

      They will be using a different repository with a different license for some of its new features

      “different license” suggests to me it might be a proprietary/fauxpen source licene, since this is explicitly being done to punish a fork.

      • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        It may be. The person saying that has contributed artwork but is not the maintainer. It is a bad look though. It sounds like they want to build the next release in secret so the fork can’t release features first.

      • FlumPHP@programming.dev
        2·
        3 months ago

        Yeah. The maintainer said in their blog post they’re looking for a license that lets people read the code but not fork it. Isn’t that just standard American copyright?

        Edit: Looks like they went with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International). So not an open source license and one that CC themselves recommends not using for software.