> I really want the lawyer.
I don't. I hope I will never need one.
> I also clicked on the "analytics" subdirectory because I found it
interesting that Google Analytics is part of Chromium.
I don't think it is not part of the browser (is it?). As the README says:
"The third_party directory contains sources from other projects."
Chromium does not connect to Google Analytics (otherwise we should have seen
it in tcpdump) and cannot open rar files.
Re. licenses: I agree with you, it is not 100% clear. Ideally everything
should be free as per FSF's terms, audited by many people, trustworthy and
privacy respecting (like the kernel). But when you have a huge project which
contains a mix of things perhaps it is not very simple to unify licenses
(another reason to hate lawyers). Is the situation with Firefox any
different? I have some memory that it was noted in previous threads that it
also has similar problems. (+ we have clear factual evidence of Mozilla's
attitude about certain concerns).
Personally I am still using Chromium (and Gmail) and looking for
alternatives. Although I have a user.js file about Firefox which tightens it
quite a lot, I am still hesitant to switch to Firefox (or IceCat) because
that would mean having to check for new leaks on each version update. And I
honestly lost any trust in Mozilla. OTOH the wonderful extensions uBO and
uMatrix are not available for non popular browsers. It is a real mess.
