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Why is flathub saying Floorp is proprietary(lemdro.id)

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I am very new to linux and all the open source stuff (my first post on lemmy actually) so I don’t get how this stuff works but flathub is saying that floorp is proprietary. But after a quick google search it says that floorp is open source licensed under MPL 2.0

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GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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Afaik it is proprietary. Probably some parts or modules of it are open-source.

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shaked_coffee@feddit.it
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From the Floorp official website:

Floorp’s source code is entirely open, allowing anyone to view it and contribute to the project. Not only is the browser itself open source, but the build environment is as well.

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GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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But it is not FOSS. As another person said, it is source-available which is still a kind of proprietary software.

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shaked_coffee@feddit.it
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As I replied to the other comment, I wasn’t aware of the recent happenings. I’ve been using Floorp for a while now and when I installed it it was fully opensource.

However, it seems like it’s fully opensource again now (sources in the other reply)

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firewood010@lemmy.zip
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You can view and contribute, so do all the help possible but you can’t modify/rebuild/release a different version. That is not open source, that is called open to volunteer.

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