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I thought chrome was open source: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code It's weird to

I thought chrome was open source: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code It's weird to think that Google would tell you not to RE an open-source project, I must be missing something

guard-of-terra 14y ago
You're missing the whole world of intensive lawyering (for the sake of it) we're living in. Yes you can download Chromium source (which is the base for both Chrome and Yandex Browser), but actual Chrome has restrictive EULA which I linked.
duskwuff 14y ago
Google Chrome includes a couple of closed-source components, including Flash.
wapper 14y ago
It's easy : chromium (http://www.chromium.org/ http://www.chromium.org/) is the open source project. It's licence is open source and can be found at http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/LICENSE?revision=125933&view=markup http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/LICENSE?revi... it looks like a "BSD with attribution" licence. Chrome (google.com/chrome) is the "closed-source" distribution to loads of platforms (includes a few closed source components. E.g. it can play .mp3 files). It's got a standard closed source licence. Comparison : http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoog... There are other distributions, for example "fedora" chromium, that doesn't have any codec support. There are versions that are not release-engineered (ie. nightly builds, but still released by some distro), ...