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minus-squareJames R KirklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·hace 2 mesesSo it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·hace 2 mesesMmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me: https://github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/patches/helium/core Not a fork, I don’t think.
minus-squareJames R KirklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-2hace 2 mesesSorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·hace 2 meses So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium? It’s not a fork, IMO. It’s just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.
minus-squareVoxel@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·hace 2 mesesTL;DR: It’s a soft fork of Ungoogled Chromium which is a soft fork of Chromium.
So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?
Mmm, its versioning keeps up with Chromium, and the source just looks like a bunch of patches to me:
https://github.com/imputnet/helium/tree/main/patches/helium/core
Not a fork, I don’t think.
Sorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?
It’s not a fork, IMO. It’s just a set of patches to upstream Chromium.
TL;DR: It’s a soft fork of Ungoogled Chromium which is a soft fork of Chromium.