[CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

Fred Smith

fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Tue Jan 20 00:49:54 UTC 2015


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...)

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