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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 Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's really great for people living in the 1990s. However for people and businesses in the now, with megacorps taking advantage of their dominant positions to sell an opensource product without contributing back and killing the business that provides the opensource product, hanging on to a lucid dream mean the death of the opensource product and loss of livelihoods.
Staying purist in the face of reality is one thing: delusional.

Maybe someday we'll have the alternative of "The morgue is full of people who had the right of way" for FLOSS purists who didn't want to give in to reality.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Could you provide an example: Ideally a copyleft one

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

There are probably BSD derivatives that act that way.