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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.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ladybird 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.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AGPL, to prevent streaming (while not sharing the code).

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah AGPLv3 is the best if it's going to be hosted as a service. Which a lot of web services do. Good point.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

...to be fair browsers don't really make sense for streaming, but you could call it "future proofing".

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago