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Linux Foundation endorses Chromium, SteamOS ISO is coming Linux & Open Source news (tilvids.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[+] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone -21 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

no; it's not open source; it's closed source by google given window dressing to appear open source.

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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Are you sure you're not thinking of Google Chrome, which is a proprietary soft fork of Chromium?

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[+] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago

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[–] qweertz@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago*

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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[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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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[–] Metz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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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