commander@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 11 hours agoWaterfox to integrate Brave adblock engine, with search ads enabled by defaultalternativeto.netexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10
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minus-squareSMillerNL@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 hours agoSince it’s Firefox based, do they even have the option to release their software with GPL components?
minus-squareCommanderCloon@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoI don’t see how not, but I’m not a lawyer. From my perspective only Waterfox’s edits would actually be GPL anyway, since they don’t own copyright to Mozilla. If they wanted to integrate their work upstream that would be an issue
Since it’s Firefox based, do they even have the option to release their software with GPL components?
I don’t see how not, but I’m not a lawyer. From my perspective only Waterfox’s edits would actually be GPL anyway, since they don’t own copyright to Mozilla. If they wanted to integrate their work upstream that would be an issue