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Not open source per OSI criteria, however they claim the source is available and can be inspected: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/is-vivaldi-open-source/ htt
by drchaos 8y ago
Not open source per OSI criteria, however they claim the source is available and can be inspected:
https://help.vivaldi.com/article/is-vivaldi-open-source/ https://help.vivaldi.com/article/is-vivaldi-open-source/
- MaxBarraclough 8y agoInteresting. > This means that for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit. Acid test: can I build it myself and expect to see identical binaries to what they ship?
- adrianN 8y agoCan you do that with Firefox? Reproducible builds are pretty hard.
- MaxBarraclough 8y agoFair point. Of course, to a FOSS purist, it's still not good enough, as mere source-inspectibility isn't enough to qualify as OSI Open Source, or as FSF Free Software.
- JdeBP 8y agoActually the acid test in this instance is whether, source in hand, you can prove https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17564964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17564964 wrong. (-:
- MaxBarraclough 8y agoThe ID-generation code should be inspectable, right?