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?

  • loki@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 year ago

    Chromium is licensed with 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.oneEnglish
      2·
      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.