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They can open source it and still keep the copyright. I mean it is not automatically GPL just becouse they put it on a public git server.
by rightbyte 6y ago
They can open source it and still keep the copyright. I mean it is not automatically GPL just becouse they put it on a public git server.
- aeyes 6y agoNot without refactoring third party code which is used under license.
- agar 6y agoNot if Windows includes source code purchased or licensed from third parties who contractually prohibit MS from publishing their source code. Which it probably does.
- mattl 6y agoI think IE was based on third party stuff. I’m sure there’s bits of that floating around everywhere.
- andrekandre 6y agoncsa mosiac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
- canucker2016 6y agofrom the Legacy section of the NCSA Mosaic wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)#Legacy: "...Versions of Internet Explorer before version 7 stated "Based on NCSA Mosaic" in the About box. Internet Explorer 7 was audited by Microsoft to ensure that it contained no Mosaic code,[39] and thus no longer credits Spyglass or Mosaic."
- andrekandre 6y ago> Internet Explorer 7 was audited by Microsoft to ensure that it contained no Mosaic code,[39] and thus no longer credits Spyglass or Mosaic. oh wow, thanks for the correction, cant beleive i missed that