From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bill-auger Subject: Re: FSDG status of chromium Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:57:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20180926145749.0b979f30@peers.community> References: <20180925092922.20b2a32d@peers.community> <871s9h2wtu.fsf@lassieur.org> <878t3o8ypl.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59569) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5F0j-0000lC-Gh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:58:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5F0g-0002Of-Bq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:58:09 -0400 Received: from sub5.mail.dreamhost.com ([208.113.200.129]:57799 helo=homiemail-a78.g.dreamhost.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g5F0g-0002NQ-1Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:58:06 -0400 Received: from homiemail-a78.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a78.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D43F48000A36 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (75-138-187-221.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [75.138.187.221]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bill-auger@peers.community) by homiemail-a78.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B6B648000A35 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:58:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878t3o8ypl.fsf@igalia.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: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:11:50 +0200 Andy wrote: > Are you aware of any concrete issue that has been raised look no further than the original 10 year old bug report that was never closed - that is enough "concrete" for my sensibilities - it plainly demonstrates that even the chromium developers are not certain whether or not it is 100% freely distributable On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:11:50 +0200 Andy wrote: > Any non-free file or incompatible in our distribution? no - and that is exactly the core problem - AFAIK no person on this planet knows the definitive answer to that question, including the upstream developers themselves, as demonstrated by the 10 year old bug report that was never closed from around 2009-2012 it actively addressed several such files then activity just petered out - perhaps those because more tedious to locate because of the overwhelming size of the code-base let me underline again, that this is not a new issue nor a guix issue - this is a long-standing issue that affects all FSDG distros equally - the most appropriate and helpful venue to discuss this is the FSDG mailing list - i started this thread only because it is apparent that no one from guixsd is currently participating in those discussions; and so to invite you to do so for the benefit of the wider free software community