Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.
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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'.
114 3 ReplyAll hail the cuck license, ensuring we end up back at the same place every single time.
Good intentions and all that
68 11 ReplyIsn't that the road to hell? Paved with good intentions
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I like this project and just hope it was gplv3 or some similar copyleft license
26 2 ReplyLadybird 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.
27 3 ReplyAGPL, to prevent streaming (while not sharing the code).
16 1 ReplyYeah AGPLv3 is the best if it's going to be hosted as a service. Which a lot of web services do. Good point.
10 1 Reply...to be fair browsers don't really make sense for streaming, but you could call it "future proofing".
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yeah agree
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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?
19 2 ReplyWebKit/Blink are mostly LGPL.
7 0 ReplyDefinitely not what you want, but Gnome web (Epiphany) is GPLv3 according to flathub.
5 0 ReplyIts better than a BSD style license which is what I was mainly critiquing
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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).
12 0 ReplyI feel you.. Fingers crossed dude. It's gonna be a bumpy ride
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