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Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser (ladybird.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 117 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Hot take: Since it's a BSD licensed browser at some point in the future, there's going to be a company that funds it brings it to mainstream with their flavor, and then will over throw chromium in time. Replace an 'evil' with another 'evil'.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

All hail the cuck license, ensuring we end up back at the same place every single time.

Good intentions and all that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Isn't that the road to hell? Paved with good intentions

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like this project and just hope it was gplv3 or some similar copyleft license

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

yeah agree

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah not a good licence at all for an independent browser. Idk if Servo MPL is a good license either. Do you know of any web browser that is GPL?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

WebKit/Blink are mostly LGPL.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Definitely not what you want, but Gnome web (Epiphany) is GPLv3 according to flathub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Its better than a BSD style license which is what I was mainly critiquing

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Luckily Gecko still exists. And who knows, maybe Servo will make it one day (but the odds are stacked against both them and Ladybird anyway).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I feel you.. Fingers crossed dude. It's gonna be a bumpy ride