Microsoft Edge: where's the source? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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If you search for "Microsoft edge open source" there will come out a lot of blog posts from five years ago praising a Microsoft Press release that announces that edge is open source .

But then, there's no actual repository, the GitHub is empty, there's only the MIT license and that's it

So, they publish the source somewhere or it's just marketing?

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[-] loki@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Chromium is licensed as 3-clause BSD, which allow developers to make closed source proprietary product on top of open-source code. Microsoft Edge isn't opensource as Google Chrome isn't open-source while they're both built on chromium.

I don't think Microsoft ever claimed it was open-source.

https://archive.is/sdmDL

[-] sushrit_lawliet@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Was sure from day one when they first announced the chromium pivot that they’d definitely cop out citing the license. Not surprised all these years later.