From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: FSDG status of chromium Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:49:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87r2hhl2uo.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <20180925092922.20b2a32d@peers.community> <87tvmdl7id.fsf@fastmail.com> <20180925202214.GA5622@jurong> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53483) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4uGu-0007sl-Ac for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:49:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4uGp-0000Es-Je for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:49:28 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:41337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g4uGp-0000DH-8q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:49:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180925202214.GA5622@jurong> 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: Andreas Enge Cc: bill-auger , guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Andreas Enge writes: > 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. To clarify: the few files flagged by 'checklicenses.py' are as far as I can tell all free software. The script just fails to classify them [4]. [4] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28291 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAluqn08ACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPr0Dwf+LKJZLkVHBSmRoORCzGBUMN/aobwzgia4vlHVmx7BI4WrYvpVLYvIns3o dKE3lEcA1CRjlH1OWA7ekNCE4oKY5u2VTIHqqFTbirpobZi4mAHNfm9f5OSkNaDY xPLr1fGyfMhcCUW03I2Q0E1LzoULO02LvjL3DfZL7VcuBM7xYzRVD7YwPGUBpfTF pdI15r7q3T/9VO9jUFXPXTbyx8X60RvNjTDHVFB6u0u8lN5772++XK0KhKL7cj7K 0kRqV6ZWoCR7g6eribU5RCOQiAIhpZ+o0xpu7L/6hVO2cfG2jQCvX3mHqYyy/sen /6p+m92S1snJz/od49ympYyj5ce/NQ== =cb0C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--