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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] 115 points 3 months ago (14 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'.

[–] Jumuta 24 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (4 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.

[–] Jumuta 3 points 3 months ago
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