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Is Servo still under Mozilla, or has it been reborn as an independent project?

hestefisk 4y ago
It’s independent, I believe.
newscracker 4y ago
A bit lazy to search right now and provide links, but Mozilla laid off most of the Servo team members a few years ago. So it’s not really been under Mozilla for all practical purposes. My understanding is that some of that work was, and continues to be, integrated into Gecko. But the momentum of replacing Gecko (a huge endeavor in itself) has been lost.
ravisutrave 4y ago
https://servo.org/blog/2020/11/17/servo-home/ https://servo.org/blog/2020/11/17/servo-home/ The Servo Project is excited to announce that it has found a new home with the Linux Foundation.
mdasen 4y ago
It's not under Mozilla. You can see in their charter: https://servo.org/governance/charter/ https://servo.org/governance/charter/ > the Servo open source project, which has been established as Servo Project a Series of LF Projects, LLC (the "Project"). LF Projects, LLC ("LF Projects") is a Delaware series limited liability company. LF Projects holds the registered trademark for Servo® (https://lfprojects.org/policies/trademark-policy/ https://lfprojects.org/policies/trademark-policy/) LF Projects is an affiliate of the Linux Foundation. So, it's maybe-independent as one of a "Series of LF Projects". LF Projects holds the trademark directly and is an affiliate of the Linux Foundation and whatever that means (does the Linux Foundation control LF Projects?). While it looks like LF Projects doesn't control the "Servo Project a Series of LF Projects, LLC" directly, its charter says they need to comply with the policies of LF Projects which seems like it effectively gives them control of Servo (since they could simply change their policy to say that). It's definitely independent of Mozilla. Whether it's truly independent is up for debate, but I think for practical terms it's independent. I don't think LF Projects or the Linux Foundation are looking to flex power in a weird way. They're just trying to provide a home for it.

It’s independent, I believe.

A bit lazy to search right now and provide links, but Mozilla laid off most of the Servo team members a few years ago. So it’s not really been under Mozilla for all practical purposes. My understanding is that some of that work was, and continues to be, integrated into Gecko. But the momentum of replacing Gecko (a huge endeavor in itself) has been lost.

ravisutrave 4y ago

https://servo.org/blog/2020/11/17/servo-home/ https://servo.org/blog/2020/11/17/servo-home/ The Servo Project is excited to announce that it has found a new home with the Linux Foundation.

mdasen 4y ago

It's not under Mozilla. You can see in their charter: https://servo.org/governance/charter/ https://servo.org/governance/charter/ > the Servo open source project, which has been established as Servo Project a Series of LF Projects, LLC (the "Project"). LF Projects, LLC ("LF Projects") is a Delaware series limited liability company. LF Projects holds the registered trademark for Servo® (https://lfprojects.org/policies/trademark-policy/ https://lfprojects.org/policies/trademark-policy/) LF Projects is an affiliate of the Linux Foundation. So, it's maybe-independent as one of a "Series of LF Projects". LF Projects holds the trademark directly and is an affiliate of the Linux Foundation and whatever that means (does the Linux Foundation control LF Projects?). While it looks like LF Projects doesn't control the "Servo Project a Series of LF Projects, LLC" directly, its charter says they need to comply with the policies of LF Projects which seems like it effectively gives them control of Servo (since they could simply change their policy to say that). It's definitely independent of Mozilla. Whether it's truly independent is up for debate, but I think for practical terms it's independent. I don't think LF Projects or the Linux Foundation are looking to flex power in a weird way. They're just trying to provide a home for it.