[Dev] [Brett Smith] [GNU-linux-libre] Time to recheck Chromium?

Joshua Ismael Haase Hernandez hahj87 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 03:49:03 GMT 2012


FYI: For your information
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:14:28 -0600, Jorge Araya Navarro <jorgean at lavabit.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >         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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