On Fri, 29 May 2020 21:59:27 -0300 Freemor <free...@freemor.ca> wrote:
> I'd be really good to get input from the other distros on this RFC > before any actual zooming ahead as they may have their own ideas that > need to be synthesised with this one. I've not looked at it personally, but we have this issue as well in Replicant. Dllud and Grim Kriegor knows more about it. They also did several presentations on that topic[1]. Many free software Android application depends on Webview which is built on top of Chromium. Given that we are super late on our work on Replicant >= 9, probably due to various personal issues, we don't have the resources to address that from Replicant right now. If I remember well, the plan from our side, was not to try to free chromium at all: Google's plan for that browser are most probably incompatible with our values (privacy, not tied to Google services in any way, etc). So the plan was to work instead, with funding from NLnet, to use GeckoView to create an implementation that is somewhat ABI compatible with Webview, in order to enable some of the applications to work again. The advantage is that projects like the tor-browser already work with Mozilla to upstream patches in Firefox. So we would have a better probability of being able to work with upstream in the case of Mozilla than Chromium or Chrome. References: ----------- [1]https://redmine.replicant.us/attachments/download/1653/webview.pdf Denis.
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