[Dev] QTWebengine is nonfree

André Silva emulatorman at riseup.net
Sun Jan 8 02:15:44 GMT 2017


Hi guys, since Chromium is blacklisted as nonfree software [0] we have a
serious issue. KDE is migrating their apps to QTWebEngine which contains
Chromium as the embed engine inside it. [1]

Blacklisting it could be a solution, however since it's an engine, a lot
of packages won't work without it and it will require a large task to
remove the entire QT/KDE framework.

What do you think is the best solution to this problem?

I feel that Chromium is nonfree and presents privacy risks due to
outstanding issues.

[0]:https://www.libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#chromium-browser
[1]:https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/1167

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