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FS#67462 - [chromium] bad license file

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andrius Štikonas (stikonas) - Saturday, 01 August 2020, 18:25 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 02 August 2020, 02:32 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

chromium license field is incorrect. It states that license is BSD (implying that chromium is FOSS) yet this package includes non-free code.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Download https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-official/chromium-84.0.4147.105.tar.xz (this URL is used by PKGBUILD)
2) tar xvf chromium-84.0.4147.105.tar.xz
3) cd chromium-84.0.4147.105/third_party/unrar
4) open LICENSE. It's source-available freeware license which is neither Open Source license nor Free Software license.
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Sunday, 02 August 2020, 02:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Sunday, 02 August 2020, 00:43 GMT
Fedora and Debian patch out unrar use [1] [2].

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/chromium/raw/master/f/chromium-83.0.4103.61-norar.patch
[2] https://sources.debian.org/src/chromium/84.0.4147.89-1/debian/patches/disable/unrar.patch/
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 02 August 2020, 02:31 GMT
The parts of Chromium authored by Google are under a 3-clause BSD license. The rest falls under several different licenses.

BSD is good enough for the PKGBUILD license field. For a complete list other projects and their licenses, see chrome://credits/

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