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Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule. (github.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
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See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783

Edit: 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

Edit 2: They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z

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[–] flumph@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.