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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 2 years ago

Linux Foundation endorses Chromium, SteamOS ISO is coming Linux & Open Source news

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 2 years ago
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    no; it’s not open source; it’s closed source by google given window dressing to appear open source.

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      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

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      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

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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.

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