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-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-up1·23 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 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.