Bharat Rakshak

And what, pray, web engine will these browsers use? There is only two out there, one owned by Google and one by Apple.

pravula wrote: ↑04 Aug 2025 01:42 And what, pray, web engine will these browsers use? There is only two out there, one owned by Google and one by Apple.

Webkit and Blink both are GNU LGPL, BSD style. Gecko is Mozilla Public. Only major (?) engine, Trident of MS, is proprietary.

"LGPL, BSD style" is quite liberal (though not as liberal as MIT Licence), so is "Mozilla Public". LGPL means you can link them as libraries (or are they moules) to your commercial closed source code. You find bugs, you can always fork and maintain your fork downstream. Easier still is to contribute to the code base directly. LGPL means you have to only share the code of the library only, not your application code. In that sense it is more liberal than GPL.

Reference for the above post is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... er_engines

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑04 Aug 2025 03:25 Reference for the above post is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... er_engines

If that’s the bar, then get a Linux distribution and call it a day. The discussion was on an Indian OS right?

pravula wrote: ↑04 Aug 2025 03:42

Vayutuvan wrote: ↑04 Aug 2025 03:25 Reference for the above post is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... er_engines

If that’s the bar, then get a Linux distribution and call it a day. The discussion was on an Indian OS right?

My understanding is that we are talking about a Linux respin. There is little profit, i.e. advantage, in a reinventing the wheel. Use Linux on the backend and Webkit or Blink for the front end UX/GUI.