Is Chromium (web browser) free/libre ?
As far as I can tell the Chromium browser is free software, but i'm not sure, from what i saw at his page (http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html) looks like it is...
On their website they toss around empty words like "open source" but they don't say if is free/libre or not.
2010/2/5 <name at domain>:
> As far as I can tell the Chromium browser is free software, but i'm not
> sure, from what i saw at his page
> (http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html) looks like it is...
> On their website they toss around empty words like "open source" but they
> don't say if is free/libre or not.
>
Ututo has it. I suppose it is 100% libre.
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It's free software, but it's not necessarily a good browser for the free software movement to work on improving, mainly for strategic reasons: Chromium isn't copyleft. And besides that it doesn't have any real edge over Firefox/IceCat in terms of features. You could include it in the repos of a fully free system like Trisquel, but you likely wouldn't have any compelling reason to do so.
In my opinion, free software advocates should focus on continued improvement of GNU IceCat, with Midori as the lightweight alternative. There are few of us already, so it's not a good idea to spread our efforts on too many different applications that serve similar functions (browse the web, in this case).
This message prompted me to try it from the Ubuntu daily build for jaunty
https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
It works rather well.
I think its only good to have diversity and this is a rather lean and fast
browser.
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2010/2/5 Quiliro Ordóñez <name at domain>
> 2010/2/5 <name at domain>:
> > As far as I can tell the Chromium browser is free software, but i'm not
> > sure, from what i saw at his page
> > (http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html) looks like it is...
> > On their website they toss around empty words like "open source" but they
> > don't say if is free/libre or not.
> >
>
> Ututo has it. I suppose it is 100% libre.
>
>
> --
> Saludos/Greetings
> Quiliro Ordóñez
> 593(02)340 1517 / 593(09)821 8696
> http://quiliro.wordpress.com
>
> "¿Sólo cuando el último árbol esté muerto, el último río envenenado y
> el último pez atrapado nos daremos cuenta que no se puede comer
> dinero?"
> "Only when the last tree is dead, the last river is poisoned and the
> last fish is caught will we realize that money is not edible?"
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The lack of copyleft provisions is problematic for a web browser, in my opinion. Such software respects users' freedom in the here and now, but all the work of the community is able disappear right down the drain. Except in this case it was the reverse; Google developed Chrome under proprietary auspices, then later released the Chromium source mainly so that ports for GNU/Linux and Mac OS could develop quickly. The permissive licensing allows any improvements to Chromium's code to get re-appropriated by Google into Chrome, which after all is the second most popular proprietary web browser in the world after The Beast Incarnate, Internet Explorer.
Midori is a great choice for a lightweight browser. It has tabbed browsing, session management, custom scripts, (a few) extensions, and uses the same rendering engine as Chromium (WebKit). I hope they add native Ogg Vorbis/Theora support soon.