Well, it does not make a search engine worse when they don't share the code of the engine with you (Since the Engine is not running on your computer, you merely get the results). Did you look into their Code repo and checked if the Code file is there too?
On 19.05.2013, at 22:45, [email protected] wrote: > DDG may contribute to free software projects, but their code is proprietary. > They get away with it because the search is being run by a service on THEIR > computers and yours. The code that runs on your computer their JavaScript > which I am not sure is under a FLOSS license. > > Looking at the source code for the home page, the > "duckduckgo-duckduckgo+sprintf+gettext+locale-simple.20130508.082254.js" > doesn't have a license defined but does include GPLv2 code which then makes > the whole .js file GPL due to how the license works. > > Their "d968.js" file doesn't include a license and I assume is not free > software.
