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Sounds like it's VNC that pretends to be open source but has a shady website that wants you to pay millions to use it.

graderjs 3y ago
No, no no that’s just for the pro version. You can use this normal version fine as long as you respect that Polyform license.
- dpwm 3y ago
  Had to admit I came to the same conclusion when I read this part of the readme: > The NC license permits "use by any charitable organization, educational institution, public research organization, public safety or health organization, environmental protection organization, or government institution is use for a permitted purpose regardless of the source of funding or obligations resulting from the funding." But on reading the license, personal noncommercial use is fine too. It would have helped me if that info had been in the readme!
  - graderjs 3y ago
    Yeah, thanks! Readme could use a rewrite definitely!
  - usr1106 3y ago
    Yes, I needed to read the full license, too. But making changes is not allowed? That's a weird open source license.
- creatonez 3y ago
  That license is certainly not open source. Redistribution and commercial use are entirely off the table with Polyform Strict.
  - graderjs 3y ago
    That’s right. It’s source-available, not Open Source. I hope I make that clear in readme, it’s important.
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dataviz1000 3y ago
You might get the same functionality running playwright with novnc on a remote server because that is all that this is, a remote headless browser, connected to a node server that communicates to the headless browser with the Chrome DevTools Protocol over a websocket, with a <canvas> element embedded in the clients browser which sends all captured events like mousemove and mousedown to the node server, and lastly renders a stream of images from the headless browser into the client browser inside the <canvas> element. [0] [0] https://github.com/land007/docker_playwright_novnc https://github.com/land007/docker_playwright_novnc

No, no no that’s just for the pro version. You can use this normal version fine as long as you respect that Polyform license.

dpwm 3y ago
Had to admit I came to the same conclusion when I read this part of the readme: > The NC license permits "use by any charitable organization, educational institution, public research organization, public safety or health organization, environmental protection organization, or government institution is use for a permitted purpose regardless of the source of funding or obligations resulting from the funding." But on reading the license, personal noncommercial use is fine too. It would have helped me if that info had been in the readme!
- graderjs 3y ago
  Yeah, thanks! Readme could use a rewrite definitely!
- usr1106 3y ago
  Yes, I needed to read the full license, too. But making changes is not allowed? That's a weird open source license.
creatonez 3y ago
That license is certainly not open source. Redistribution and commercial use are entirely off the table with Polyform Strict.
- graderjs 3y ago
  That’s right. It’s source-available, not Open Source. I hope I make that clear in readme, it’s important.

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dataviz1000 3y ago

You might get the same functionality running playwright with novnc on a remote server because that is all that this is, a remote headless browser, connected to a node server that communicates to the headless browser with the Chrome DevTools Protocol over a websocket, with a <canvas> element embedded in the clients browser which sends all captured events like mousemove and mousedown to the node server, and lastly renders a stream of images from the headless browser into the client browser inside the <canvas> element. [0] [0] https://github.com/land007/docker_playwright_novnc https://github.com/land007/docker_playwright_novnc