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Re: Yandex Browser

#61
post #40

Here's what I see when I visit that page: http://imgur.com/bwf5N (Tl;dr: a blurb of text saying it's not available for Linux, that's it, no info about what it is etc.) Non-Linux peeps: do you get an equally uninformative landing page?

I get the same thing. I guess there is no love for Linux

Re: Yandex Browser

#62
>4.1. Except when and if, and only to the extent expressly permitted by this License or by the applicable law of Russian Federation the User shall not be entitled to modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or perform other activities with the object code of this Software with the only purpose of obtaining information on how algorithms used in this Software are implemented, to create derivative products using the Software, and otherwise use, or allow other persons to do so, the Software without written consent of the Rights Holder. The User may make a modification of the Software solely for his or hers own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications. The User shall not be entitled to distribute, communicate, make the Software available for the general public or otherwise use such modifications, except as for his or hers own use. >4.2. The User shall not be entitled to reproduce, distribute, communicate, make the Software available for the general public or otherwise use the Software for commercial purposes (including for payment), including as part of software product collections without written consent of the Rightholder.

I hope Yandex die.

Re: Yandex Browser

#65

>4.1. Except when and if, and only to the extent expressly permitted by this License or by the applicable law of Russian Federation the User shall not be entitled to modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or perform other activities with the object code of this Software with the only purpose of obtaining information on how algorithms used in this Software are implemented, to create derivative products using the Soft…

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_text.html

9.2 Subject to section 1.2, you may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google, in writing.

9.3 Subject to section 1.2, unless Google has given you specific written permission to do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Software.

How so? It looks like Google Chrome license is in fact more restrictive and yet you don't hope Google die, do you?

And I think that Google is on the liberal side when it comes to EULAs, compared to copyright monsters like Microsoft or Adobe.

And if you reason that true Open Source solutions like Firefox are the way to go, I may remind you of the IceWeasel scandal where Debian had to rebrand its build of Firefox because it could not distribute it with the required tweaks due to copyright issues on Mozilla part.

Re: Yandex Browser

#67
post #38

Using it for a few minutes, few things i really like. 1. Someone finally put the Refresh and Stop Button where it should be. Firefox actually had it during beta testing but they somehow decide to but it at the end of the Address bar instead. 2. The Graphics, Curve, Looks more like better then the comparatively toyish Chrome. 3. The Options have always belonged to the Tab Bar and not the address bar. To me i think tha…

> Flash is only available in Chrome and not Chromium

Flash is available in Chromium. It plugs right in.

Re: Yandex Browser

#68
post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

do you remember altavista.digital.com?)

Yes, I remember that it was almost impossible to find anything with it in Russian.

Why it shall be otherwise, especially with 4 different Cyrillic encodings and size of .ru segment these days?

Re: Yandex Browser

#69

>4.1. Except when and if, and only to the extent expressly permitted by this License or by the applicable law of Russian Federation the User shall not be entitled to modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or perform other activities with the object code of this Software with the only purpose of obtaining information on how algorithms used in this Software are implemented, to create derivative products using the Soft…

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_text.html 9.2 Subject to section 1.2, you may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google, in wr…

I thought chrome was open source: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code

It's weird to think that Google would tell you not to RE an open-source project, I must be missing something

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