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The reason why it's so hard to make forks of Firefox is that it's available under a copyleft license. But that copyleft license is the only thing stopping it fr
by jasonhansel 5y ago
The reason why it's so hard to make forks of Firefox is that it's available under a copyleft license. But that copyleft license is the only thing stopping it from being commercialized and turning into Chrome.
- detaro 5y agoWhy does the license make it hard to fork Firefox?
- worldmerge 5y agoFrom this comment on the Firefox subreddit, seems like Gecko is just too hard to work with. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/m8cwdu/why_arent_there_many_firefoxbased_alternatives/grgrbej/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/m8cwdu/why_arent_t... And not related to their license.