2014-10-14 8:40 GMT+02:00 Doug Newgard <scimmia@archlinux.info>:
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:28:46 +0200 Sebastiaan Lokhorst <sebastiaanlokhorst@gmail.com> wrote:
2014-10-14 8:13 GMT+02:00 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@barrera.io>:
There would be little point in getting it to work with Chromium anyway. Why would you care if you're using an open source browser if you're gonna add a propietary DRM plugin onto it? Just pick Chrome and avoid the hastle. That is, after all, what Chrome is: Chromium + propietary addons (+ some rebranding).
A proprietary plugin can be sandboxed, to be sure it doesn't do anything it's not supposed to do. That's at least the idea that the Firefox people want to implement.
Besides that, just using Chrome is indeed the easiest solution right now. The only problem is that it is not in the official Arch repositories, leading to more hassle.
Would it be possible to move it there from the AUR? We have lots of closed-source software in the official repositories, and I think Chrome (with EME and Flash Player built in!) would be very useful for people. We already have the old NPAPI Flash Player, so I don't see why this would be a problem.
Sebastiaan
I believe the closed source portions are non-redistributable.
Unfortunately, you seem to be right...
From https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/eula_text.html :
"5.3 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Google, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose." Thanks for the quick reply anyway! :) Sebastiaan