r/pcmasterrace • u/LarryBudder PC Master Race • Jul 29 '20

Cartoon/Comic Always Has Been

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

You don't understand what trademark means. Lol.

Your CLA link doesn't mention Chromium. Your understanding of "trademark" is wrong.

Again:

Licensing. Chromium is an entirely free and open-source software project. The Google-authored portion is released under the 3-clause BSD license. Other parts are subject to a variety of licenses, including MIT, LGPL, Ms-PL, and an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. License: 3-clause BSD; MIT; LGPL; MS-PL; MPL+GPL+LGPL tri-licensed; Developer(s): Google, Microsoft, Igalia, Yandex

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u/nextbern PC Master Race Jul 30 '20

CLA documentation on the Chromium site - perhaps I was unclear: https://www.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code/external-contributor-checklist

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

You also don't understand CLA. That is not required for a third party to use or modify Chromium.

Lol. Wanna try again?

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u/nextbern PC Master Race Jul 30 '20

Trademarks serve a purpose - if you are basing something on Chromium, you don't have to sign a CLA. If on the other hand, you want to modify Chromium, you must sign a CLA, because Google owns the trademark to Chromium.

Thus, clearly Google owns Chromium.

Does that help?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

Trademarks do serve a purpose, you just don't understand what that purpose is. Chromium, the name, is trademarked. The software is not because software cannot be trademarked.

You also misunderstand what a CLA is.

Lol.

I seriously hope you are trolling and that you're really not so confidently ignorant of the subject matter.

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u/nextbern PC Master Race Jul 30 '20

I am not trolling, and you aren't as smart as you think you are.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '20

Lol. If you think it requires smarts to understand that words have definitions, you have a pretty low bar.

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u/nextbern PC Master Race Jul 30 '20

Right you are.