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by luka-birsa 2231 days ago
I wonder if they changed the licensing to something you can actually use in a non FOSS product. Way way back (8 years ago?) we were deciding between webkit and gecko for our solution (we needed a web engine for server side GFX rendering) and the licence made it very simple for us to decide - WebKit was MIT, Gecko wasn't.
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mook 2230 days ago
Wasn't WebKit LGPL (because of the KHTML heritage)? I was under the impression that, for commercial usage, Gecko (with MPL) was more friendly. Either can be made to work, of course.
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yjftsjthsd-h 2231 days ago
> we needed a web engine for server side GFX rendering

> the licence made it very simple for us to decide - WebKit was MIT, Gecko wasn't.

...So what? If it runs on your server, it could be just about anything and it wouldn't matter so long as it's not AGPL. Or was the server meant to belong to the customer?

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kick 2231 days ago
It can be used in proprietary software. You shouldn't, because that's unethical, but the MPL isn't a strong copyleft. And even with strong copylefts, there are only three that I can think of that apply to software that won't end up on user devices.
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