Is "SRWare Iron" free browser?

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roboq6
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It is fork of Chromium targeting better privacy.

Original Chromium have some parts under unclear licenses.
But maybe SRWare Iron fixed the problem?

akirashinigami

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Its Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron) states that it is proprietary - "all rights reserved."

roboq6
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onpon4
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The source code isn't even available; it's uploaded to Rapidshare with downloading by most people disabled.

Regarding Wikipedia, my experience tells me that it's usually correct in practice despite the possibility of being wrong.

roboq6
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"it's uploaded to Rapidshare with downloading by most people disabled."

Lets make request to developers.
"Hi, I want to download source code of SRWare Iron.
And please, enable downloading from Rapidshare for everyone". Maybe developers just think, that very small amount of people will be want to download source code.

roboq6
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Hmm. Very strange situation. Developers just ignore all questions about getting source code.

http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2134

onpon4
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That guy really double-posted complaining about being ignored much too soon, but two years later, it might be safe to say that that was correct...

In any case, even if you get the source code, it's no use if it's under a nonfree license (or no license at all, which seems to be the case). My guess is that they're distorting the meaning of "open source" to mean "some source code is available to look at".

lembas
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The net is full of crap. Just watch your step.

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I'm sure using stock Chromium with extensions and customization of the settings can achieve what Iron is trying to do.

poluxson
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I has send a email to Iron Browser
"Hello good Day I'm a User from Iron Browser, i used in linux and Windows becouse a like to protect my privacy and i'm not a fan from Google Chrome who's eating to Chromium, wherever.

My reason to been writing this message is becouse exist a Linux distribution called "Trisquel" it's full free software
http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html
Im proposing to include Iron Browser as a default Browser in Trisquel, so i has been opening a forum trying to discuss this.

Before to Continue Trisquel is Based in Ubuntu so it can be used .deb packages, I return to what I was saying, the persons in the forum are telling that Iron is not complete free software becouse of somenthing of a license of BSD.

I don't like what Google Chrome it's doing not respecting your privacy, so i propose to this alternative to include Iron in Trisquel and put relations, What your guys think?, can we make Iron all free software? i expect a answer."

quiliro@congresolibre.org
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El 15/05/13 15:06, name at domain escribió:
> the persons in the forum are telling that Iron is not complete free
> software becouse of somenthing of a license of BSD.

It is not because it has a BSD license. It is not free because it
contains or recommends non-free software.

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