Let web applications be file handlers

Re:Let web applications be file handlers by Karellen on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:23PM (#27506217)

> The Chrome team set out to build a better browser and even open sourced the core, Chromium.

I think that rewrites history a bit. They started with a Free Software browser - Konqueror/KHTML - and were required to release changes under a compatible license.

We should be thankful that Konqueror/KHTML was released under a Free Software license, rather than a permissive open source license that would have allowed Google to deny us the rights that they had been granted by their upstream.

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Re:Let web applications be file handlers by anjbe on Monday June 14, 2021 @05:45PM (#27508724)

> We should be thankful that Konqueror/KHTML was released under a Free Software license, rather than a permissive open source license

Your wording suggests that permissive licenses are not “Free Software” licenses, which is incorrect. Even the FSF acknowledges that permissive licenses like BSD, ISC, MIT, and Apache are free.

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Re:Let web applications be file handlers by Karellen on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:38AM (#27514380)

My bad, I should have said "Copyleft" rather than "Free". Thanks for the correction.

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Re:Let web applications be file handlers by zepto on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:45PM (#27506560)

I think that rewrites history a bit. They started with a Free Software browser - WebKit…

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Re:Let web applications be file handlers by funcDropShadow on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:51PM (#27508147)

And WebKit was a more or less friendly fork of KHTML/Konqueror.

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Re:Let web applications be file handlers by zepto on Monday June 14, 2021 @05:50PM (#27508764)

It was a fork - so what Google started with was not actually KHTML and the amount of work done after the fork before Google started using it was much greater than that done before.

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