LCP@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoFirefox's new ad: "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here."youtu.beexternal-linkmessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down18
arrow-up1251arrow-down1external-linkFirefox's new ad: "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here."youtu.beLCP@lemmy.world to Firefox@lemmy.ml · 1 day agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squareAlex@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down3·1 day agoIt’s obviously still open source or the various downstream forks of it wouldn’t be able to exist.
minus-squareCosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down5·1 day agoIt’s why I differentiated the Firefox executable vs Firefox the application code. Firefox the application code is still open source. The executable binary is not.
minus-squarefoenkyfjutschah@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 minutes agoHow would distribute the open source of a binary?
minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·22 hours agoThat’s true, but it just seems like a silly distinction cooked up by some overly paranoid lawyer working for firefox, that has no practical effect.
It’s obviously still open source or the various downstream forks of it wouldn’t be able to exist.
It’s why I differentiated the Firefox executable vs Firefox the application code.
Firefox the application code is still open source. The executable binary is not.
How would distribute the open source of a binary?
That’s true, but it just seems like a silly distinction cooked up by some overly paranoid lawyer working for firefox, that has no practical effect.