From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: FSDG status of chromium Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:22:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20180925202214.GA5622@jurong> References: <20180925092922.20b2a32d@peers.community> <87tvmdl7id.fsf@fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4tqg-0007pT-St for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:22:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4tqc-00063k-RA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:22:22 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([185.233.100.1]:33782) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4tqc-00063F-HM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:22:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tvmdl7id.fsf@fastmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Marius Bakke Cc: bill-auger , guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 09:08:42PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > That leaves "first party" source files. Admittedly I haven't audited > all of those other than superficial grepping. Do you know whether parts > of Chromium are considered non-free? I noticed a number of files are > missing license information: in those cases I have assumed that the > top-level "LICENSE" file (BSD-3) applies. Debian has a package "chromium-browser" in the free section: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium-browser So at least it is apparently possible to get a working binary with only free sources. Andreas