On 15/11/17 16:42, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote:
I also have contributed to that thread on directory-discuss mailing
list.
I hope it helps somehow. ;)
bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> writes:
there is an open issue about this on the parabola bug tracker that you
can watch if you like
https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/1167
i asked donaldr about this last week and he asked that i post to the FSD
mailing list so hopefully that will re-kindle some discussion -
unfortunately no one from the FSF has commented on it so that's still
where it stands today
this issue is almost 10 years old now and it seems highly doubtful that
it will be resolved ever - if parabola is waiting for the FSF to declare
chromium to be free then parabola will probably be blacklisting chromium
and all qtwebengine-based and electron-based programs forever
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2017-11/msg00001.html
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I think the main problem with chromium was that the licenses were/are
not clear enough for some of the files - in that it didn't pass the
ubuntu license checker [1]. What's also concerning, is that it's
suggested on the linked thread, that they are mixing GPL code with other
licenses. I don't think the GPL permits that (even if the code is only
distributed in source form). This may have changed since ... and I am
not a lawyer.
Licenses aside, chromium apparently links with non-free plugins (not
sure if this is fixed in Iridium).
But long and short is it may be worth attempting to run the license
checker on Iridium and QTWebengine. I'm speculating that QTWebengine
probably has a higher chance of passing (if either of them actually do),
as there is some confusion over whether the whole engine is included in
the software [or not] ... it has been stated both ways.
I can see why it's difficult, because if code with unknown licenses were
accepted and then found to be non-free, it may subsequently effect lots
of derivative projects and code (inc. QTWebengine). I guess this is why
some people are nervous about giving chromium the benefit over the doubt
and including it on the basis of good faith.
Finally the bug in the link below has been closed, if it's a problem
that can be fixed I suggest someone attempts to "re-triage the issue" if
at-all possible.
[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28291
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