Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
by gorm on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @04:54AM
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Most of the UI is based on React. But we use a lot of open source projects. If you run it you should visit vivaldi://credits
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It's cool that you use a lot of open source projects. But some of them are under licenses that require the user to be able to download their source code, and it's not obvious right now where (for instance) your Webkit code is. You should probably fix that.
And as an aside - if you're linking LGPLed material into a static binary (as you appear to be doing with Webkit), you need to follow the provisions of section 6(a) of LGPL 2.1 and provide object files that allow the recipient to re-link the binary with a modified copy of the LGPLed work.
Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
by yellowapple on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @09:00PM
(#8957568)
According to that, it seems that Vivaldi uses a lot of GPL'd and LGPL'd libraries, and it's not clear that Vivaldi is in compliance with the copyleft requirements of those licenses, nor is it apparent which license Vivaldi is released under as well (be it a FOSS license, some EULA, etc.).
There are also a lot of libraries listed that are licensed under the Mozilla Public License, which is incompatible with the GNU GPL. Distributing this therefore might not actually be legal, regardless of whether or not it's released under a FOSS license, since those two license families have conflicting requirements for derived works (including works which use those libraries).
YMMV, IANAL, etc., but this thing's running the risk of legal technicalities killing it in the crib.
Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
by WorldWideWayne on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @08:40AM
(#8959704)
Please just give us a native window that works like the rest of the application windows on my OS though. What's the need for customizing the UI so that it doesn't fit in with the OS?