[CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

On Wed, January 21, 2015 3:12 pm, Connie Sieh wrote:
> 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 ?
>

Right people to ask would probably be RedHat folks ;-) In any event, why
would that matter?! No, this is a rhetoric question.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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