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One could argue that the BSD licence the chromium code is under has disadvantages in comparison to GPL, but saying outright “not open source” is just utter nonsense.
chromium is not and never has been open source
Isn’t that objectively a false statement?
no; it’s not open source; it’s closed source by google given window dressing to appear open source.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Google Chrome, which is a proprietary soft fork of Chromium?
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I don’t think you understand what “open source” means then?
To put it simply: a programme using a license that guarantees certain freedoms.
Chromium uses such a license: the 3-Clause BSD license
Can you explain further? I’ve never looked into this before, but I can seemingly find chromium’s source code on github, and on Google’s chromium site
One could argue that the BSD licence the chromium code is under has disadvantages in comparison to GPL, but saying outright “not open source” is just utter nonsense.
The queen of England isn’t dead and Elvis just went home.
Chromium is open source
Chrome is not.