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  • From: flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master binary grimoire by Eric Sandall (5a31fb97019be225d43d249dcfeb91e679c08f5a)
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 05:05:14 -0500

Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik (ruskie AT codemages.net) wrote [10.01.06 01:31]:
> :2010-01-05T22:16:Eric Sandall:
>
> > + LICENSE[0]=http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html
>
> That there doesn't look very open-sourcey or Free Softwarey. You sure
> this belongs in binary and not z-rejected?
>
> We are talking Chrome here not Chromium.
>
> Also that license needs to be accepted apparently.
>
> - Excerpt -
> 9. License from Google
>
> 9.1 Google gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable
> and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by Google
> as part of the Services as provided to you by Google (referred to as the
> “Software” below). This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you
> to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Google, in
> the manner permitted by the Terms.
>
> 9.2 Subject to section 1.2, you may not (and you may not permit anyone
> else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer,
> decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the
> Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or
> required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you
> may do so by Google, in writing.
>
> 9.3 Subject to section 1.2, unless Google has given you specific
> written permission to do so, you may not assign (or grant a
> sub-license of) your rights to use the Software, grant a security
> interest in or over your rights to use the Software, or otherwise
> transfer any part of your rights to use the Software.
>

With all the provisioning "subject to section 1.2", I think seeing that
bit would be highly relevant. I'm excerpting it below.

1.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing with Google, your agreement with
Google will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions
set out in this document. These are referred to below as the
“Universal Terms”. Open source software licenses for Google Chrome
source code constitute separate written agreements. To the limited
extent that the open source software licenses expressly supersede
these Universal Terms, the open source licenses govern your
agreement with Google for the use of Google Chrome or specific
included components of Google Chrome.

As stated, any rights or uses granted by the open source license
supersede whatever appears in this license. At first the clauses in 9.2
worried me with their reference to not being allowed to extract the
source code. However, if there are no components of chrome that are not
open source, then these provisions are effectively meaningless and
simply exist because the program is being provided in binary form I
think. Of course, IANAL, so I could be wrong on this point. Still, it
sounds more to me that this is a general license they might slap on
every binary they produce per default, and then just use the open source
license to supersede it.

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Justin "flux_control" Boffemmyer
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Source Mage GNU/Linux
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