• slacktoid@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Hot take: Since it’s a BSD licensed browser at some point in the future, there’s going to be a company that funds it brings it to mainstream with their flavor, and then will over throw chromium in time. Replace an ‘evil’ with another ‘evil’.

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      4 months ago

      All hail the cuck license, ensuring we end up back at the same place every single time.

      Good intentions and all that

      • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
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        4 months ago

        Ladybird is licences under BSD-clause 2. Which allows privatization of the code.

        IMO a web browser should be GPLv3, specially to not allow DRM bullshit in the browser.

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          4 months ago

          AGPL, to prevent streaming (while not sharing the code).

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            4 months ago

            Yeah AGPLv3 is the best if it’s going to be hosted as a service. Which a lot of web services do. Good point.

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              4 months ago

              …to be fair browsers don’t really make sense for streaming, but you could call it “future proofing”.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah not a good licence at all for an independent browser. Idk if Servo MPL is a good license either. Do you know of any web browser that is GPL?

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      Luckily Gecko still exists. And who knows, maybe Servo will make it one day (but the odds are stacked against both them and Ladybird anyway).