[Dev] [Brett Smith] [GNU-linux-libre] Time to recheck Chromium?
Jorge Araya Navarro
jorgean at lavabit.com
Tue Mar 20 03:14:28 GMT 2012
>
>
> Inspired by a recent bug report, I started taking another look
> at
> Chromium's current licensing situation, and it seems like
> there's been a
> lot of improvement. A lot of the problems I used to know
> about are
> gone. Using Debian's copyright file as a sort of guide, I
> went looking
> for files with bad licensing, and didn't have any luck -- a
> lot of the
> files that Debian classifies as "unknown" are autogenerated,
> or have
> good license headers that were just missed by whatever script
> they're
> using. The bug report that we link to in NONFSDG has seen a
> lot of
> progress since, including at least one update this year.
>
> Is anybody interested in taking a deeper look at Chromium's
> current
> status to see if there might be a way to include it now? I
> remain loyal
> to Mozilla-based browsers myself, but I know a lot of users
> are
> interested in Chromium, so it would be nice if that was an
> option free
> distros could provide.
>
> --
> Brett Smith
> License Compliance Engineer, Free Software Foundation
>
> Support the FSF by becoming an Associate Member:
> http://fsf.org/jf
>
>
> fyi
>
what does "FYI" stand for? :O
--
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