[CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

Fred Smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Tue Jan 20 03:44:04 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 08:01:02PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 01/19/2015 06:49 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 05:55:44PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >> On 01/19/2015 04:10 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 01/19/2015 12:23 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Johnny,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Any ETA on version 39.0.2171.95
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> cheers
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> bump
> >>>>
> >>>> If I could build it, I would.  At the present time, i can not build it
> >>>> as the source is not on ftp.redhat.com or git.centos.org.
> >>>>
> >>>> Red Hat does not have permission for it to be built anywhere besides
> >>>> their supplemental channel for RHEL6, and I have asked Red Hat legal and
> >>>> they are trying to get permission from Google to release it in CentOS.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am sorry, but I can't build and release it at this time.  I may not be
> >>>> able to do so, even though I really, really do want to release it.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Thanks for the update Johnny. So was version 38 just a one time special
> >>> permission thing?
> >>>
> >>> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/x86_64/RPMS/
> >>
> >> I very much got yelled at for that.
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > wait,... I thought Chromium was "open source"... you need a license
> > to distribute it? (note that I haven't researched which license it
> > uses...)
> > 
> 
> Red Hat has permission to distribute, to paying customers, pieces of it
> that are not open source.  I need to get permission to strip parts of
> that out and distribute the rest.
> 
> I have asked for permission and am waiting on the answers of:
> 
> 1. Can do that (take out some pieces and distribute)
> 
> 2. If I can do that, are the pieces I took out good enough or do I need
> to make more changes.
> 
> I want to make this happen and I am trying to do so.  However, I have no
> idea what the outcome will be.
> 
> One thing is for sure, people are watching me very closely on this ..
> therefore I must do it exactly the way they want me to.
> 

Thanks for the effort, Johnny, we all appreciate all that you do!

Fred

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