• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    There is currently no implementation of web standards that is under a more permissive license than LGPL or MPL. I think that is a gap worth filling and if I recall that is what Ladybird is doing.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      I guess Chromium isn’t fully BSD. This could be the reason. Although I’d think reimplementing the non-BSD bits in Chromium would be less work than reimplementing all the bits, including the BSD ones.

    • glukoza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      i’d argue its better for software to max foss license like AGPL, not bsd that can be taken out by companies

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      6 months ago

      Why is that a gap worth filling? There is no benefit to users as long as its free of a EULA they don’t have to care either way. For those wanting to produce open source software based on same they already have all the rights they could need. The only party clamoring for permissively licensed software are companies intending to close off the source and sell other people’s work.

      I understand why they would want to do that I don’t understand why anyone would feel the need to work for free for something someone else closes off.

      • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        There are some cases where it’s just not possible to release the source code, even if you wanted to.

        For example, if you’re developing a Nintendo switch game, you aren’t allowed to release any code that uses Nintendo’s sdk, so that means you also can’t use any copyleft libraries.

        Maybe MPL-licensed libraries would be ok though. Idk, I’m not a lawyer.