[sf-lug] More notes on Slackware and relateds

[Rick Moen]

Quoting aaronco36 (aaronco36 at linuxwaves.com):

> Well, it turns out that Eric Hameleers a.k.a. "Alien"/"AlienBOB"[02] has 
> made available Slackware SlackBuilds[03] for both Chromium[04] +and+ 
> for the Chromium Pepper Plug-in API (PPAPI) flash plugin[05]. 
> A caveat here from [06] and [07] is that the _library_ for this 
> PepperFlash PPAPI plugin for Chromium is actually extracted from a 
> Google Chrome RPM, and therefore plugin users _must_ accept the 
> bundled license file [08][09] if they want to use this 
> closed-source plugin.
> Therefore, while "Chromium is the genuinely open source, base Web 
> browser of which Google Chrome is a proprietary offshoot", the 
> Pepper Flash PPAPI plugin for Chromium, OTOH, is _closed-source_ 
> (at least for Eric H's SlackBuild for Slackware :|)

Yep.  Pepper Flash is definitely proprietary software.  (I'm sorrry if
that wasn't clear from my upthread post where I said it was a component
of the proprietary Google Chrome Web browser.)

I was just recommending that as the least-bad solution to a problem that 
happily is going away as Macromedia^W Adobe Flash fades to oblivion,
unmourned.

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