From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: qtwenengine anybody? Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 20:52:59 +0100 Message-ID: <87lfql7k9w.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87a77sqtdq.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87immgqryj.fsf@gmail.com> <871rt4qnp9.fsf@gmail.com> <87immgp582.fsf@gmail.com> <5955729d-ef57-ffb8-feb8-36a9f53658a2@crazy-compilers.com> <87d0clpbt6.fsf@gmail.com> <87y2v7e0g4.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87v9qb56gg.fsf@gmail.com> <87sglfotvj.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87o8w354m5.fsf@gmail.com> <87blrod2so.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <878smsd2pe.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mub7krlq.fsf@gmail.com> <87tv5e9acb.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87o8vmn6an.fsf@elephly.net> <87zhf2c5jy.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ioBxb-0001Pb-0a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:53:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ioBxZ-0005ce-Te for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:53:14 -0500 In-reply-to: <87zhf2c5jy.fsf@gmail.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: mike.rosset@gmail.com Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, GNU Guix maintainers Hi Mike, thank you for your patient reply. > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Does the code include DRM support, for example? Does it phone home? >> Can we see the patches that upstream applied to the Chromium sources? >> > > QtWebengine does not handle DRM at all. That is handled by a 3rd party > plugin called wildevine and would require guix to bundle that plugin. > Something I'm confident is not going to happen. As an added measure my > proposed qtwebengine declaration has pepper plugins disabled making it > impossible to load 3rd party plugins either way. > > see https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html#html5-drm > for reference I=E2=80=99m aware of this. My apologies for not expressing myself more clearly. We probably want to remove the support for the DRM plugin, following the discussions about ungoogled-chromium at https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34565 > In regards to QtWebEngine phoning home https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine > states all google services have been removed. Nothing I've seen > indicates this is not the case. Excellent. Thank you for checking. --=20 Ricardo