Re: The Opera browser

From: Alfred Breull (puma@hannover.sgh-net.de)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 09:44:14 CEST


At 09:00 18.06.01 GMT, mek wrote:
>
>> what do you think about Opera? It seems to me a very good browser,
>> but it is not OpenSource, or I'm wrong?
>
>great tiny browser, but watch out, there are a few problems with it. firtsly
>it's not free (as in speech, but OK neither is netscape), it is closed source
>(like netscape), but i remember that opera is even not freely distributable.
>i looked on their website for the license but couldn't find it.

Hm. It was ported to OpenBSD about 6 weeks ago. Christian Weisgerber
wouldn't have done if distributions were limited -- specially, after
the recent discussions on BSD vs Gnu licences (and followed by the
exclusion of ipf and other stuff where authors didn't want to change
to BSD licence).
-Alf

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