one-os-dev-wayland-html5-compositor-comparison/Greenfield-vs-MIT-Comparison.md

Greenfield (AGPL) vs MIT-Licensed Custom Compositor — Final Comparison & Recommendation

Executive summary. This document compares two approaches to building a Wayland-to-HTML5 compositor for the Odoo 20 fork:

1. Option A — Use Greenfield as-is (AGPL-3.0): faster time-to-market, battle-tested codebase, but AGPL contamination forces the entire Odoo fork to be open-sourced under AGPL-3.0. NOT COMPATIBLE with the user's proprietary goal.

2. Option B — Build a fully MIT-licensed custom compositor (this bundle): reuse Greenfield's 7 MIT libs as building blocks, replace the 4 AGPL packages with clean-room reimplementations in TypeScript (browser) and Python (host). Fully proprietary, but ~6-9 months of engineering effort.

Final recommendation: Option B (MIT-licensed custom compositor). The user's #1 priority is license purity for a proprietary Odoo fork — this rules out Option A. With 2 senior engineers in parallel, Option B is achievable in ~5-6 months to MVP, ~8-9 months to production.

TL;DR — Decision matrix

Dimension	Option A: Greenfield (AGPL)	Option B: MIT Custom Compositor
License purity	❌ AGPL-3.0 contamination — entire Odoo fork must be open-sourced	✅ Fully proprietary — MIT/Apache/BSD/LGPL only, with 3 substitutions
Time to MVP	✅ 1-2 weeks (run as-is in dev)	❌ ~32 weeks (with 2 engineers in parallel)
Time to production	⚠️ Never (AGPL blocks shipping)	❌ ~38 weeks (with 2 engineers)
Performance	✅ Battle-tested, optimised	✅ Modern stack (WebGL2 + WebCodecs HW + OffscreenCanvas), should match or exceed Greenfield
Maintainability	⚠️ Forked from rc1, must track upstream	✅ Full control, no upstream dependency
Sandboxing	❌ Zero (apps have full host access)	✅ bubblewrap + seccomp + systemd-run from day 1
Multi-tenancy	❌ Single-user single-session	✅ Per-Odoo-DB isolation, JWT-scoped sessions
Odoo integration	⚠️ Custom shell needed (Preact → Odoo OWL)	✅ Native Odoo 20 OWL shell + backend addon
Vendor lock-in	❌ Locked to Greenfield's architecture + upstream churn	✅ Swap any component (e.g. replace pywayland with Smithay Rust)
Clean-room legal risk	N/A (using AGPL code directly)	⚠️ Must maintain SPEC.md + CLEAN_ROOM_LOG.md as legal defense
Total effort	~1-2 weeks to dev MVP, never shippable	~32-38 weeks to production MVP
Recommendation	❌ REJECT (license incompatible)	✅ ADOPT (the only viable path)

Detailed comparison

1. License purity (user's #1 priority)

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL)

Critical problem: The 4 user-facing packages are AGPL-3.0:

• @gfld/compositor (browser compositor library)
• @gfld/compositor-proxy (native proxy)
• @gfld/compositor-proxy-cli (proxy CLI)
• @gfld/compositor-shell (Preact shell — out of scope, user replaces with Odoo)

AGPL §13 network-use clause: "If you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network, an opportunity to obtain the source code of your modified version."

Impact on Odoo fork: The Odoo fork is a network service (users access it via browser). If the compositor is AGPL-derivative, the entire Odoo fork must be open-sourced to all users. This destroys the proprietary value of the Odoo fork.

Additional GPL contaminants found in Greenfield (Agent T audit):

• @gfld/compositor-ffmpeg-h264 — declared Apache-2.0 but actually GPL-3.0 (FFmpeg built with --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree)
• x264enc GStreamer plugin — GPL-2.0+ (no dynamic-linking exception)
• gstreamer1.0-libav on Debian — LGPL source but GPL binary (libavcodec built with --enable-gpl and links libx264.so.164 + libx265.so.215)

Verdict: ❌ NOT VIABLE for a proprietary product.

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor

License stack (verified clean by Agent T):

Component	License	Compatible?
@gfld/common, @gfld/client-protocol, @gfld/compositor-protocol	MIT	✅
@gfld/compositor-wasm (pixman + xkbcommon)	MIT	✅
@gfld/xtsb (optional, XWayland)	MIT	✅
@gfld/client-generator, @gfld/compositor-generator	MIT	✅
pywayland	Apache-2.0	✅
python-xkbcommon	MIT	✅
PyGObject + GStreamer	LGPL-2.1+ (dynamic linking)	✅
gst-vaapi (vaapih264enc)	LGPL + MIT (libva)	✅
gst-plugins-bad (nvh264enc, openh264enc)	BSD subset	✅
libwayland, libdrm, mesa	MIT	✅
aiohttp	Apache-2.0	✅
kcp (PyPI)	MIT	✅
PyJWT	MIT	✅
bubblewrap	LGPL-2.0+ (dynamic linking)	✅
libseccomp	LGPL-2.1	✅
Odoo 20 Community	LGPL-3.0 (separate process)	✅
WebCodecs, WebGL2, OffscreenCanvas	W3C standards	✅
OpenH264 (BSD fallback decoder)	BSD-2-Clause	✅
Custom browser compositor (your code)	PROPRIETARY (clean-room)	✅
Custom Python proxy (your code)	PROPRIETARY	✅
Custom Odoo 20 addon (your code)	PROPRIETARY	✅

3 mandatory substitutions (to avoid GPL contamination):

1. WebCodecs API replaces @gfld/compositor-ffmpeg-h264 (GPL)
2. vaapih264enc / nvh264enc / openh264enc replaces x264enc (GPL)
3. Don't install gstreamer1.0-libav (GPL binary on Debian)

Clean-room requirement: The custom browser compositor MUST be written clean-room — Person A writes spec (may read AGPL), Person B implements (must NOT read AGPL). Maintain SPEC.md + CLEAN_ROOM_LOG.md as legal-defensibility artifacts.

Verdict: ✅ FULLY PROPRIETARY VIABLE with 3 substitutions + clean-room discipline.

2. Time to MVP

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL)

• Week 1-2: Run Greenfield's compositor-proxy-cli in Docker, embed the compositor-shell in an Odoo iframe, launch gtk4-demo, see it render.
• Week 3-4: Replace compositor-shell with minimal Odoo OWL component.
• Week 5-6: Integrate with Odoo auth, add app launcher.

Total to dev MVP: ~4-6 weeks.

But: This is dev-only. You cannot ship this without open-sourcing your Odoo fork. So time-to-MVP is irrelevant — the option is non-viable.

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor

Phase	Weeks (1 dev)	Weeks (2 devs parallel)
Phase 0: Spike (validate libwayland ↔ asyncio)	1	1
Phase 1: Browser compositor MVP (clean-room TS)	25	15 (one on compositor, one on transport+input)
Phase 2: Python proxy MVP (aiohttp + pywayland + GStreamer)	3.5	3.5 (parallel with Phase 1)
Phase 3: Odoo integration (OWL shell + backend addon + JWT)	3.5	3.5 (parallel with Phase 1)
Phase 4: Sandboxing v1 (bubblewrap + seccomp)	1.5	1.5
Phase 5: Polish & testing	3	3
TOTAL to MVP	~37.5 weeks (~9 months)	~24 weeks (~6 months)
Phase 6 (optional): XWayland + multi-tenant + portal	+9	+6

Critical path: Browser compositor (Phase 1) is the bottleneck. With 2 senior engineers (one on compositor core + roles, one on transport + input + Python proxy + Odoo integration), MVP in ~6 months.

3. Performance

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL)

• WebGL1 (no OffscreenCanvas, no WebGL2)
• Main-thread WebGL (jank on heavy frames)
• WebCodecs with hardware decode disabled (FIXME: "frame offset is wrong")
• FFmpeg Wasm fallback (GPL — can't ship anyway)
• H.264 encoding: x264 software (GPL — can't ship anyway)
• No adaptive bitrate (EncoderFeedback data produced but not consumed)
• Single-threaded JS compositor

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor

• WebGL2 (uniform buffer objects, simplified shaders)
• OffscreenCanvas + Web Workers (render in worker, never block main thread)
• WebCodecs with hardware decode enabled (fix Greenfield's FIXME)
• OpenH264 BSD Wasm fallback (replaces Greenfield's GPL FFmpeg Wasm)
• Hardware-accelerated encoding by default (vaapih264 on Intel/AMD, nvh264 on NVIDIA)
• Adaptive bitrate (consumes EncoderFeedback data Greenfield ignores)
• Multi-threaded (render worker + decode worker)

Expected performance: Should match or exceed Greenfield. Hardware decode + hardware encoding + worker offload should give 2-3× improvement on heavy content.

4. Maintainability

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL)

• Forked from 1.0.0-rc1 — must track upstream commits manually
• 3 native Node addons (.node files, Linux-x64 only, ABI-locked to Node major)
• Heavy build toolchain (Yarn 4 + CMake + Ninja + Meson + pkg-config + 2 Emscripten versions)
• Solo maintainer (Erik De Rijcke) — single point of failure
• No CHANGELOG, no SECURITY.md, no CONTRIBUTING.md

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor

• Full control over the codebase
• No native Node addons (pure Python + TypeScript)
• Standard build toolchain (npm/pnpm + pip + standard tsc/aiohttp)
• Python team can maintain Python parts; TS team can maintain browser parts
• No upstream churn to track

5. Sandboxing & security

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL)

Zero sandboxing (Agent S analysis, pitfall M):

• Plain child_process.spawn() with no isolation
• Apps have full host filesystem access
• Apps share the proxy's env (could leak DB passwords, Odoo session cookies)
• No network isolation
• No resource limits
• Basic Auth (single replayable credential)
• Client-generated compositorSessionId (spoofable)

Verdict: ❌ Cannot ship in production without major security work.

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor

Sandboxing from day 1 (Agent S analysis):

• bubblewrap --unshare-all --clearenv --seccomp <memfd>
• --ro-bind /usr /usr, minimal /etc whitelist, $HOME overlay
• --dev-bind /dev/dri/renderD128 (single GPU render node)
• --ro-bind $HOST_XDG/wayland-N /run/user/<UID>/wayland-N (single socket only)
• --uid 100000-165535 per-app (UID remap via /etc/subuid)
• --unshare-net by default (most apps don't need network)
• systemd-run --scope -p MemoryMax=1G -p CPUQuota=200% -p TasksMax=256
• JWT auth (HS256, 15-min expiry, signed by Odoo backend)
• Server-generated compositor_session_id (UUID, not client-generated)

Effort: ~7-9 dev-days for v1 (shippable), +4-9 days for v2 (XWayland sandbox + veth networking).

Verdict: ✅ Production-grade sandboxing out of the box.

6. Multi-tenancy

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL)

Single-user single-session. No multi-tenant isolation. Each Odoo database would need its own proxy instance, manually configured.

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor

• One compositor proxy per Odoo database (Docker container per tenant)
• JWT db claim scopes every WS to one Odoo database
• Per-session wayland socket ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayland-N)
• Per-session forked worker process
• Per-app UID remap (100000-165535)
• Per-app cgroup limits (MemoryMax, CPUQuota, TasksMax)
• Optional: per-tenant Docker container with --cpus and --memory limits

7. Odoo integration depth

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL)

• Custom shell needed: replace Preact compositor-shell with Odoo OWL component
• Auth bridging: Greenfield's Basic Auth → Odoo session (fragile)
• No audit log integration
• No multi-tenancy

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor

• Native Odoo 20 OWL shell (ir.actions.client with target=fullscreen)
• JWT auth issued by Odoo backend (HS256, 15-min expiry)
• Audit log model (compositor.audit.log, append-only) — every app launch/terminate/crash logged with user, timestamp, app, duration
• App catalog model (compositor.app) — per-user allowed apps list, filtered by res.groups
• Session model (compositor.session) — mail.thread mixin for tracking
• Nginx reverse proxy for single-origin HTTPS (eliminates CORS)
• Docker Compose with GPU passthrough

8. Vendor lock-in

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL)

• Locked to Greenfield's architecture (browser compositor + Node proxy)
• Locked to Node.js (N-API addons ABI-locked to Node major)
• Locked to Linux-x64 (no ARM64)
• Locked to Greenfield's wire protocol (no schema versioning)
• Must track upstream rc1 → 1.0 transitions

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor

• Swap any component:
  • Replace pywayland with Smithay (Rust) if Python doesn't work out
  • Replace aiohttp with FastAPI if needed
  • Replace GStreamer with PyAV (FFmpeg Python bindings) if needed
  • Replace WebGL2 with WebGPU when browser support is widespread
• No Node.js dependency (pure Python + TypeScript)
• Linux-x64 + ARM64 (pywayland ships ARM64 wheels)
• Can version your own wire protocol from commit #1

Effort estimates (detailed, person-weeks)

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL)

Phase	Person-weeks	Notes
Dev MVP (run as-is in Docker)	1-2	Cannot ship — AGPL
Replace shell with Odoo OWL	2	Cannot ship — AGPL
Auth integration	1	Cannot ship — AGPL
Sandboxing (NEW, not in Greenfield)	1.5	Cannot ship — AGPL
Multi-tenancy	1.5	Cannot ship — AGPL
TOTAL	~7-8 weeks	All wasted — cannot ship

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor

Single engineer, sequential

Phase	Weeks	Deliverable
Phase 0: Spike	1	Validate libwayland ↔ asyncio integration (5-line cffi shim)
Phase 1: Browser compositor MVP	25	Clean-room TypeScript, ~13,400 LOC
Phase 1a: Surface state stack	3	Surface.ts, SurfaceRole.ts, Subsurface.ts (1,200 LOC)
Phase 1b: Rendering pipeline	3	Renderer.ts, Scene.ts, View.ts, Output.ts, shaders (1,800 LOC, WebGL2)
Phase 1c: Buffers	1.5	Shm.ts, BufferContents.ts, ImageBitmapBuffer.ts (600 LOC)
Phase 1d: Transport + decoders	4	Channel.ts, kcp.ts, ReconnectingWebSocket.ts, WebCodecsFrameDecoder.ts, OpenH264FrameDecoder.ts (3,500 LOC + 500 LOC)
Phase 1e: Input	3	Seat.ts, Keyboard.ts, Pointer.ts, Touch.ts, Xkb.ts (2,500 LOC)
Phase 1f: Roles (xdg-shell)	3	XdgWmBase.ts, XdgSurface.ts, XdgToplevel.ts, XdgPopup.ts, XdgPositioner.ts (1,800 LOC, HIGH RISK)
Phase 1g: Data device + clipboard + DnD	1.5	DataDeviceManager.ts, DataSource.ts, DataOffer.ts, PrimarySelectionDeviceManager.ts (NEW) (600 LOC)
Phase 1h: Desktop policy	1.5	Desktop.ts, FloatingDesktopSurface.ts (800 LOC)
Phase 1i: Math	0.5	Mat4.ts, Vec4.ts, Point.ts, Size.ts, Rect.ts (500 LOC)
Phase 1j: UserShellApi	0.5	UserShellApi.ts (120 LOC)
Phase 1k: Browser glue	2	input.ts, pointer.ts, touch.ts (NEW), dnd.ts, selection.ts (750 LOC)
Phase 1l: Core	0.5	Session.ts, Globals.ts (200 LOC)
Phase 2: Python proxy MVP	3.5 (~17 dev-days)	aiohttp + pywayland + GStreamer, ~2,880 LOC Python
Phase 2a: aiohttp WS server (9 endpoints)	3 days	/signal, /channel, /mkfifo, /mkstemp-mmap, /read-fd, etc.
Phase 2b: Channel/ARQChannel/SimpleChannel port	1.5 days	Clean-room from spec
Phase 2c: kcp PyPI package integration	0.5 days	RealistikDash/kcp.py
Phase 2d: NativeAppContext (signaling, escalation)	2 days	10-min SIGHUP grace, SIGTERM escalation
Phase 2e: ProxyInputOutput (FD workaround)	2 days	os.pipe(), os.memfd_create(), asyncio streams
Phase 2f: libwayland event-loop integration	1 day	5-line cffi shim for wl_event_loop_get_fd
Phase 2g: Multiprocessing + FD passing	1.5 days	multiprocessing.reduction.send_handle
Phase 2h: GStreamer encoder thread + marshalling	2 days	GLib MainLoop in separate thread, asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe
Phase 2i: Reconnection & lifecycle	1 day
Phase 2j: Tests	3 days	pytest + pytest-asyncio
Phase 3: Odoo integration	3.5 (~18 dev-days)	OWL shell + backend addon + JWT + Nginx + Docker
Phase 3a: Odoo addon skeleton	2 days	Models + controllers + views + security
Phase 3b: JWT issuance + audit log	1.5 days	HS256, 15-min expiry, pyjwt
Phase 3c: OWL 3 fullscreen client action	2.5 days	ir.actions.client, target=fullscreen, must use proxy() not useState()
Phase 3d: Browser compositor integration	2 days	userShell.actions.initScene
Phase 3e: JWT middleware + WS handshake	1.5 days
Phase 3f: Audit POSTback + Nginx + Docker + GPU	2 days
Phase 3g: Multi-tenant	1.5 days	Per-DB proxy spawning + db claim
Phase 3h: Tests	2 days	HttpCase + TransactionCase
Phase 3i: Documentation + buffer	3 days
Phase 4: Sandboxing v1	1.5 (~7-9 dev-days)	bubblewrap + seccomp + systemd-run
Phase 4a: bwrap integration	2-3 days
Phase 4b: seccomp profile + compile	1-2 days	Docker default profile + CLONE_NEWUSER allow
Phase 4c: systemd-run cgroup wrapper	1 day	MemoryMax=1G, CPUQuota=200%, TasksMax=256
Phase 4d: Wayland socket ownership fix	0.5 days	chmod 0660 + sandbox group
Phase 4e: GPU passthrough testing	1 day	/dev/dri/renderD128 only
Phase 4f: Schema + docs	1 day
Phase 5: Polish & testing	3	Tests, hardening, docs
MVP TOTAL	~37.5 weeks	Single-tenant, single-app, fully proprietary, sandboxed
Phase 6 (optional): XWayland	+8	~5,000 LOC TS, uses @gfld/xtsb (MIT)
Phase 6 (optional): Multi-tenant portal	+2	XDG Desktop Portal (FileChooser/Secret)
Phase 6 (optional): Per-tenant veth networking	+2	nftables filter
GRAND TOTAL (with Phase 6)	~49.5 weeks	Production-ready

Two engineers in parallel

Phase	Weeks	Notes
Phase 0: Spike	1	Both engineers validate together
Phase 1 (Eng A: compositor core + roles) + Phase 2+3 (Eng B: transport + Python + Odoo)	25 (Eng A is critical path)	Parallel
Phase 4 (Eng B: sandboxing) + Phase 5 (Eng A: tests)	3	Parallel
MVP TOTAL	~29 weeks (~7 months)
Phase 6 (optional): XWayland (Eng A) + multi-tenant (Eng B)	+6	Parallel
GRAND TOTAL (with Phase 6)	~35 weeks (~9 months)

Three engineers in parallel (aggressive)

Phase	Weeks	Notes
Phase 0: Spike	1	All three validate together
Phase 1 (Eng A: compositor + roles) + Phase 2 (Eng B: Python proxy) + Phase 3 (Eng C: Odoo integration)	25 (Eng A is critical path)	Fully parallel
Phase 4 (Eng B: sandboxing) + Phase 5 (Eng A + C: tests)	2	Parallel
MVP TOTAL	~28 weeks (~7 months)
Phase 6 (optional): XWayland (Eng A) + portal (Eng B) + veth (Eng C)	+5	Parallel
GRAND TOTAL (with Phase 6)	~33 weeks (~8 months)

Final recommendation

Strong recommendation: Option B (MIT Custom Compositor)

The user's #1 priority is license purity for a proprietary Odoo fork. This single requirement rules out Option A entirely — AGPL §13 would force the entire Odoo fork to be open-sourced, destroying the proprietary value.

Option B is the only viable path. With 3 mandatory substitutions (no GPL x264, no GPL FFmpeg Wasm, no Debian gst-libav) + clean-room discipline for the browser compositor, the entire stack is MIT/Apache/BSD/LGPL — fully proprietary-compatible.

Effort justification

The user is essentially building a Wayland compositor from scratch. This is a significant engineering effort (~25-30 dev-weeks for the browser compositor alone), but:

1. It's a one-time cost. Once built, the compositor is yours to maintain and extend indefinitely.
2. The browser compositor is the bulk of the work (~60% of total effort). The Python proxy + Odoo integration + sandboxing are relatively quick (~8.5 weeks total).
3. The clean-room approach is legally defensible. With proper SPEC.md + CLEAN_ROOM_LOG.md artifacts, the user can demonstrate non-infringement even if Greenfield's maintainer alleges derivative-work infringement.
4. The modernized stack is better than Greenfield — WebGL2, WebCodecs HW decode, OffscreenCanvas + Workers, adaptive bitrate, sandboxing, multi-tenancy, Odoo integration. The user gets a better product, not just a license-clean one.

Phased rollout recommendation

To minimize risk and validate assumptions early:

Phase 0 (Week 1): Spike

• Validate libwayland ↔ asyncio integration (5-line cffi shim)
• Validate kcp PyPI package works with aiohttp WebSocket
• Validate WebCodecs prefer-hardware decode works on target hardware
• If any of these fail, reassess before committing to the full plan

Phase 1 (Weeks 2-15, 2 engineers): Browser compositor MVP

• Eng A: Surface + Roles (xdg-shell state machine)
• Eng B: Transport + Input + Decoders
• Target: A single Linux app renders in a <canvas> via the custom compositor

Phase 2 (Weeks 2-6, parallel with Phase 1): Python proxy MVP

• Eng C: aiohttp + pywayland + GStreamer + bubblewrap sandboxing
• Target: Python proxy can spawn a sandboxed Linux app and stream its surface to the browser compositor

Phase 3 (Weeks 7-10, after Phase 2): Odoo integration

• Eng C: OWL shell + backend addon + JWT + Nginx + Docker
• Target: End-to-end: user clicks app in Odoo, app launches sandboxed, renders in Odoo canvas

Phase 4 (Weeks 11-13): Polish & testing

• All engineers: tests, hardening, docs
• Target: Production-ready MVP

Phase 5 (Weeks 14+, optional): XWayland + multi-tenant + portal

• Add X11 app support, per-tenant isolation, XDG Desktop Portal

Critical success factors

1. Hire 2-3 senior engineers with Wayland + WebGL + TypeScript + Python expertise. The browser compositor is the critical path — don't understaff it.

2. Set up clean-room discipline from day 1. Designate Person A (spec author, may read AGPL) and Person B (implementer, must NOT read AGPL). Maintain SPEC.md + CLEAN_ROOM_LOG.md.

3. Add CI/CD license hygiene gates from day 1. Docker image audit, npm license-checker, pip-licenses, gst-inspect check. Catch GPL contamination early.

4. Engage legal counsel before starting the clean-room process. This bundle is engineering analysis, not legal advice.

5. Test with real Linux apps early. Don't wait until Phase 4 to test with GTK4/Qt6 apps. Bugs in the xdg-shell state machine are subtle and need real apps to surface.

6. Skip XWayland in MVP. Most modern GTK4/Qt6 apps are Wayland-native. Add XWayland only if a specific X11-only app is needed.

7. Use the kcp PyPI package. Don't port Greenfield's TS KCP to Python — the Cython wrapper is faster and battle-tested.

8. Reuse Greenfield's MIT C files (westfield-egl.c, wlr_drm.c, wlr_linux_dmabuf_v1.c, etc.) via cffi. ~3,374 lines of MIT C reused verbatim — significant effort savings.

9. Use vendored ReconnectingWebSocket (Pedro Ladaria, MIT, 514 lines TS). Don't reinvent.

10. Plan for 6-9 months, not 3. The browser compositor is a significant piece of engineering. Underestimating it is the most common failure mode for Wayland compositor projects.

What's at stake

If the user chooses Option A (AGPL):

• They cannot ship a proprietary product.
• They must open-source their entire Odoo fork.
• Their investment in Odoo customizations becomes a gift to competitors.
• The product is non-viable as a commercial offering.

If the user chooses Option B (MIT):

• They invest ~6-9 months of engineering effort.
• They get a fully proprietary Wayland-to-HTML5 compositor.
• They get a modernized stack (WebGL2, WebCodecs HW, OffscreenCanvas, sandboxing, multi-tenancy, Odoo integration).
• They have full control over their IP and roadmap.
• The product is viable as a commercial offering.

The choice is clear: Option B.

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Appendix: Quick reference cards

Option A — Greenfield (AGPL) quick reference

Aspect	Detail
Repo	https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
Version	1.0.0-rc1
License	AGPL-3.0 (4 packages) + MIT (7 libs) + GPL (compositor-ffmpeg-h264, hidden)
Browser stack	WebGL1, main-thread, FFmpeg Wasm (GPL), WebCodecs HW disabled
Backend	Node.js + 3 C N-API addons (Linux-x64 only)
Sandboxing	None
Multi-tenancy	None
Odoo integration	Custom shell needed, Basic Auth
Time to dev MVP	4-6 weeks
Time to production	Never (AGPL blocks shipping)
Verdict	❌ REJECT

Option B — MIT Custom Compositor quick reference

Aspect	Detail
Browser stack	WebGL2 + OffscreenCanvas + Web Workers + WebCodecs (HW enabled) + OpenH264 BSD Wasm fallback
Backend	Python (aiohttp + pywayland + PyGObject/GStreamer + bubblewrap + seccomp)
License	MIT/Apache/BSD/LGPL only, fully proprietary-compatible
Sandboxing	bubblewrap + seccomp + systemd-run + cgroups v2, from day 1
Multi-tenancy	Per-Odoo-DB Docker container, JWT-scoped sessions
Odoo integration	Native OWL shell + backend addon + JWT (HS256) + Nginx + Docker Compose
Effort (2 engineers)	~6 months to MVP, ~9 months to production
Effort (3 engineers)	~7 months to MVP, ~8 months to production
Clean-room requirement	Mandatory (SPEC.md + CLEAN_ROOM_LOG.md)
GPL contaminants to avoid	3 (FFmpeg Wasm, x264enc, gst-libav)
Verdict	✅ ADOPT