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
Can you explain how this works?
Say a contributer downloads v1.1 of floorp, checks the code and makes a PR. Floop sees this and accepts the change and publishes v1.2. If a new contributer downloads floorp, they get v1.2 where they can see the previous merged PR.
How is it that they are not giving back? I can understand that not being on a repository makes it difficult but it's technically possible.
The contribution is automatically relicensed under that licence and as such, it remains property of the org that made floorp, so they're technically getting free labour, support and maintenance
Sounds like bsd with extra steps
It's way worse.
With bsd you could at least take the code you got and make your own fork, with these shared source licenses you get nothing.