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My understanding is some things (e.g. Google Chrome, Google and Microsoft fonts) can't be put in the main Arch Linux repos for copyright reasons.
by xiii1408 8y ago
My understanding is some things (e.g. Google Chrome, Google and Microsoft fonts) can't be put in the main Arch Linux repos for copyright reasons.
- arendtio 8y agoI wonder how other distributions solve that situation.
- Foxboron 8y agoDistributing them as repackaged binaries would be against the terms. I'm unsure what distros ignores the terms and packages them anyway. It is a clear liability for any larger distributions at least.
- blfr 8y agoBy being popular enough to have providers package the software for them. For example, Chrome is available from a repo maintained by Google itself. https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ OTOH, you're basically giving Google root access to your machine.
- Hello71 8y agoEither ignore them (Ubuntu) or they just don't. For many years Debian and Fedora didn't have MP3 decoder installed by default.
- bscphil 8y agoChromium and Google's Roboto and Noto fonts are all in the official repos.
- xiii1408 8y agoYeah, Chromium, which is FOSS, not Google Chrome, and Google Noto Fonts, which are also FOSS. Anything proprietary can't simply be copied over and mirrored for copyright reasons.