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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master binary grimoire by Eric Sandall (5a31fb97019be225d43d249dcfeb91e679c08f5a)
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:25:47 -0800

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 05:05:14 -0500
flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> wrote:

> 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.

This is my understanding. AFAIK Google Chrome is to Google Chromium as
our firefox-bin is to firefox.

-sandalle

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