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Florp, the Firefox fork with an awful name, is fully source-available again (github.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The repository for the previously private submodule is still called Floorp-private-components, though it's public.

https://blog.ablaze.one/4125/2024-03-11/ is a maintainer's official response to... Reddit, which crossposted me apparently. Hooray!

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (14 children)

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike is not really open source. It's more like source available

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yep...when software advertised as "Open" uses that type licence, it goes straight to the trash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I’m curious to hear the philosophical reasons that lead you to feel so strongly about this.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

The license looks to be Creative Commons non-commercial, which means it isn’t open source, only source-available.

To be clear: the license chosen prohibits anyone who forks floorp and includes these extra bits from trying to make money from it, but the developer still intends on publishing the source code so it can still be scrutinized.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Amended title. CC really isn't something one should be using for source code

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (6 children)

"Boohoo, people used my publicly available source to do their own thing and now I'm mad and want to get paid".

That's the gist of the article. Dev got butthurt that his project didn't take off and blames "forking".

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