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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Inspired by a recent bug report, I started taking another look at</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Chromium's current licensing situation, and it seems like there's been a</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">lot of improvement. A lot of the problems I used to know about are</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">gone. Using Debian's copyright file as a sort of guide, I went looking</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">for files with bad licensing, and didn't have any luck -- a lot of the</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">files that Debian classifies as "unknown" are autogenerated, or have</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">good license headers that were just missed by whatever script they're</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">using. The bug report that we link to in NONFSDG has seen a lot of</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">progress since, including at least one update this year.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Is anybody interested in taking a deeper look at Chromium's current</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">status to see if there might be a way to include it now? I remain loyal</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">to Mozilla-based browsers myself, but I know a lot of users are</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">interested in Chromium, so it would be nice if that was an option free</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">distros could provide.</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">-- </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Brett Smith</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">License Compliance Engineer, Free Software Foundation</FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">Support the FSF by becoming an Associate Member: <A HREF="http://fsf.org/jf">http://fsf.org/jf</A></FONT></TT><BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#2e3436">fyi</FONT></TT><BR>
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what does "FYI" stand for? :O<BR>
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