Summary: | www-client/google-chrome ebuilds present in tree need *.deb mirrored by Gentoo | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Oleh <moonlapse81> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Mike Gilbert <floppym> |
Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | chromium, xmw |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Oleh
2015-12-16 05:37:20 UTC
Unfortunately, Google does not permit mirroring of their releases. Citing the google-chrome EULA:
> 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.
I interpret this to mean that mirroring the deb files would be a violation of copyright since I do not have permission to do so in writing from Google.
Additionally, I believe we have requested such permission in the past, and were told "no". I would have to dig through my email to find that.
Besides the specific prohibition on copying, we actually need to go a step further and have specific permission TO copy. That is under most legal systems works are copyrighted by default, and the presumption is that you aren't allowed to copy them. You need an explicit grant of a license to copy at all. It isn't enough to not be forbidden to copy a file. Of course, we're all used to working with open source licenses which clearly grant permission to copy. The problem is that chrome isn't open-source, or freely redistributable. In short, in order to mirror a file we need a license somewhere (either available to everybody or at least to Gentoo) that gives us explicit permission to redistribute the file, at least in unmodified form. Without that, we cannot mirror it, though if there is a stable URL for the file from somebody who can distribute the file we can still fetch it. |