[Fedora-legal-list] Chrome and VB?

Peter Lemenkov lemenkov at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 11:48:05 UTC 2011


Hello.

2011/12/18 Christopher Svanefalk <christopher.svanefalk at gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> I have been surprised that - despite their prominence - projects like
> VirtualBox and Chrome (the open source version, built directly from
> Chromium) have not been packaged for Fedora. I might be interested in doing
> this, and just wanted to know if there are any legal hurdles to it being
> done, in case that is the reason it has not been done yet?

VirtualBox requires kernel module which is prohibited in Fedora.
Chromium is just too complex and too unstable (in terms of API
interface to the 3rd party libs).

I personally advise you to stay away from both of them.

-- 
With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.



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