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[OUTDATED POST] Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule. (github.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Update: They just open-sourced it https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-private-components

cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/foss@beehaw.org/t/170330

See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783

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[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Welp, the message you've cross-posted was since edited to include

Edit: They claim they will make that part open source too, eventually, and it is due to behavior of another browser: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core/issues/62

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can somebody elaborate on this? How could somebody stealing their code be a problem?

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Not sure about this particular case as the author didn't elaborate, but sometimes suckers sell binaries. Also, they've mentioned assets that may be non-commercial or require naming the original author which some forks may choose to ignore.

Anyways, I personally don't use floorp, so you better ask their devs or community.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

It appears they just did, as of a few minutes ago while I was looking into it

Here is the now open private components repo under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
And I forked it just to be sure