[CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

Connie Sieh

csieh at fnal.gov
Wed Jan 21 21:12:10 UTC 2015


On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, 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.
>
>

Johnny,

Recently on ftp.redhat.com a src rpm for chromium-browser appeared.  It 
has since disappeared.  It was located in 6Workstation, 6Client and 
6Server.

Does this have anything to do with your request for a chromium-browser 
src.rpm ?

-- 
Connie J. Sieh 
Computing Services Specialist III

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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