Google Chrome activity?

[pgf at laptop.org]

carol wrote:
 > According to /. the license includes:
 > 
 > *"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a
 > perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license
 > to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly
 > display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or
 > through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling
 > Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked
 > for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."*

however, it also seems that this google EULA covers their
executable, and not their open-source licensed code.  so apparently it's
the case that one could build an equivalent browser using google's
code and not be covered by these terms.  (at least, that's what i
understand from further reading.)

paul

 > 
 > 
 > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:35 AM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbeek at gmail.com>
 > > wrote:
 > > > Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
 > > >> On 9/3/08, *david at lang.hm <mailto:david at lang.hm>* <david at lang.hm
 > > >> <mailto:david at lang.hm>> wrote:
 > > >>     On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
 > > >>         Anyone here motivated to turn Chrome into an activity?
 > > > The open source project is on http://dev.chromium.org.
 > > > There are instructions for a Linux build, but it has the following
 > > warning:
 > > >
 > > > Note: There is /no/ working Chromium-based browser on Linux. Although
 > > > many Chromium submodules build under Linux and a few unit tests pass,
 > > > all that runs is a command-line "all tests pass" executable.
 > >
 > > That means it's ripe for a sugar-based UI!
 > >
 > > I actually think the "popups included in parent window" model is a
 > > better fit for the XO than any of the gecko-based browsers we've got
 > > so far.  You can drag tabs and popups out into their own "window"
 > > which would be the equivalent of creating a separate "activity
 > > instance" in the frame for them.  The security model is very
 > > compatible with bitfrost, as is their javascript VM.
 > >
 > > I'm actually intrigued by the possibility of using the V8 javascript
 > > VM to run python bytecodes; their VM seems much better suited to
 > > executing python than many of the other VMs that have been targeted in
 > > the past, and the caching and serialization mechanisms provided would
 > > allow us to do the "rainbow pre-fork" stuff, but much better.  The
 > > real question is whether it could be made to coexist with modules
 > > written to the existing python native code interface, since pygtk Must
 > > Work.
 > >  --scott
 > >
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