Re: [gentoo-dev] License for Google Chrome

2011-08-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: Perhaps I used the wrong term here. I mean that 2.2 (B) allows the user to download and install the software without having to explicitly click the Agree button on the software download page. I did not review the Chrome

Re: [gentoo-dev] License for Google Chrome

2011-08-27 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2011.08.26 23:06, Mike Gilbert wrote: I have been maintaining an ebuild for Google Chrome in an overlay. It basically extracts a deb file to /opt. This serves as an easy alternative for people who do not have the patience to compile Chromium. Now that I have developer access, I would

[gentoo-dev] Re: License for Google Chrome

2011-08-27 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il giorno sab, 27/08/2011 alle 08.23 -0400, Rich Freeman ha scritto: Gentoo does not need to accept a license to allow users to fetch a file directly, so the EULA/license in itself doesn't necessarily force us to use RESTRICT=fetch. Let me try to use this point to remind that unclear patent

Re: [gentoo-dev] License for Google Chrome

2011-08-27 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/26/11 9:32 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: To clarify: Chrome is a pre-built, officially branded version of the open-source Chromium project. It also includes a few proprietary components, like a PDF reader plugin from Adobe. To be precise, the PDF reader in Chrome is not Adobe's, but Google's

[gentoo-dev] Re: [sys-boot/grub] Grub2 series prepared for testing

2011-08-27 Thread Duncan
Tomáš Chvátal posted on Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:28:26 +0200 as excerpted: I updated the grub2 ebuilds in main tree and took maintainership of grub2. Thanks. I've been wondering about trying grub2, but have some questions. What is needed to compile it? Specifically, my main machine is ~amd64

Re: [gentoo-dev] License for Google Chrome

2011-08-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Roy Bamford neddyseag...@gentoo.org wrote: On 2011.08.26 23:06, Mike Gilbert wrote: I have been maintaining an ebuild for Google Chrome in an overlay. It basically extracts a deb file to /opt. This serves as an easy alternative for people who do not have the

[gentoo-dev] Xen completely busted in the stable tree

2011-08-27 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
Hey guys, I think app-emulation/xen-tools are completely broken in stable tree, especially see bugs like https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376819 and https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379815 I noticed some activity and work being done on those packages, but only in ~arch. If someone