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Why is flathub saying Floorp is proprietary (lemdro.id)

submitted 4 months ago by astro_ray@lemdro.id to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I am very new to linux and all the open source stuff (my first post on lemmy actually) so I don't get how this stuff works but flathub is saying that floorp is proprietary. But after a quick google search it says that floorp is open source licensed under MPL 2.0

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[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it -3 points 4 months ago

From the Floorp official website:

Floorp's source code is entirely open, allowing anyone to view it and contribute to the project. Not only is the browser itself open source, but the build environment is as well.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 30 points 4 months ago

But it is not FOSS. As another person said, it is source-available which is still a kind of proprietary software.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It changed recently

https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 6 points 4 months ago

As I replied to the other comment, I wasn't aware of the recent happenings. I've been using Floorp for a while now and when I installed it it was fully opensource.

However, it seems like it's fully opensource again now (sources in the other reply)

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Tbh I still wouldn't trust them because they made some stuff proprietary for a while. It seems a bit sketchy.

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 4 points 4 months ago

Agree, it doesn't mean the project it bad but it still seems a bit weird. I've texted one of the Dev on Reddit to ask for some clarification about the whole thing, and maybe understand the reasons behind this choices.

Will update you here if they reply

[-] firewood010@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

You can view and contribute, so do all the help possible but you can't modify/rebuild/release a different version. That is not open source, that is called open to volunteer.