Re: [GNU-linux-libre] DSFG in perpetuity

[Isaac David]

Jason Self wrote :
> bill-auger wrote :
>
> >  chromium is however not one of those items - and i quote:
> >
> >    Recommended Fix:
> >      Remove program/package
> >      Use GNU IceCat, or equivalent
>
> Yes, although it's presence there is based on a report from 2009 that
> upstream has said has been
> addressed. [...] There is some evidence that suggests it's outdated 
> (i.e.,
> Debian has added Chromium into Main without the -dfsg string in the
> package version number which suggests that they didn't need to make
> any changes to Chromium to fit with their criteria.

right off the bat, Debian's Chromium steers users towards nonfree
addons, just like their version of Firefox... obviously unacceptable
to FSF standards.

what the libreplanet wiki documented --namely unclear license
headers-- was but one issue, likely addressed upstream by now. it's
also likely that Debian isn't building Chromium from sources
completely, as explained by [Ungoogled Chrommium], unless they went to
great length similarly patching the build process.

that last bit may not be part of the Guidelines, but worries me
still. not to mention all the built-in spyware.

in my mind it's only the [case against Qt-Webengine] (at Parabola)
that rests of pretty shaky grounds: a vague indication that Arch
Linux's [sic] build in particular activated nonfree addons, and fears
that Chromium's problems could be contagious, despite statements to
the contrary made by Qt-Webengine developers themselves.

[Ungoogled Chromium]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
[case against Qt-Webengine]: https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/1167

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