On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:48:07 +0200 "A.J. Venter" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > Some of you may have noticed the news that google-chrome released an > official GNU/Linux beta yesterday. Chromium (the community project I wasn't aware, but its nice they got around to it. > it's built on) is BSD-licensed and obviously then free software > (though we may > raise queries about it's plugins/extensions at least the code is free > there) but the download page for google-chrome shows this agreement: > http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=en&platform=linux&brand=CHFK > > Which is most certainly not compliant with most of the four freedoms. > My feeling at this stage, is that chrome is probably non-free and > chromium is free but problematic - but since I'm rather a fan of the > technology in it, I thought > I would seek some opinions about this understanding. Considering the > likely future popularity of this browser on our platforms, I think we > need a consensus on whether we will provide, provide a forked version, > or leave it out completely. Seeing as kongoni does not exist in a > vacuum - I reckoned this is something the free distro's need a > collective decision on. I don't see why it needs special treatment. If its free software, people should be allowed to package it/integrate it. If its not, it needs to stay out. That said, it carries a lot of convenience code (as Brett said), which is a security issue (if nothing other then the extra work required to keep things updated after a security issue is found) kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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