I am very new to linux and all the open source stuff (my first post on lemmy actually) so I don’t get how this stuff works but flathub is saying that floorp is proprietary. But after a quick google search it says that floorp is open source licensed under MPL 2.0

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    4 months ago

    From the Floorp official website:

    Floorp’s source code is entirely open, allowing anyone to view it and contribute to the project. Not only is the browser itself open source, but the build environment is as well.

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      4 months ago

      But it is not FOSS. As another person said, it is source-available which is still a kind of proprietary software.

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      4 months ago

      You can view and contribute, so do all the help possible but you can’t modify/rebuild/release a different version. That is not open source, that is called open to volunteer.