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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that objectively a false statement?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months 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.