The license file include with the Chromium BSU 0.9.14 sources tarbal, is
the original Artistic license, which is not acceptable for Fedora. I've
requested upstream to relicense Chromium under the clarified artistic license
and they have agreed, see below for the permission notice.

They have already updated the license text in their source repository (git)
and the clarified artistic text will be the standard license for the next
release.

Delft, 17 may 2009,

Hans de Goede


Subject:
Re: chromium license
From:
"Mark B. Allan" <mallanmba@yahoo.com>
Date:
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
To:
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>, Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>

Hi Hans - 

I am willing to relicense Chromium BSU to the Artistic Clarified license. Is there anything that needs to be done apart from changing the verbage in the COPYING file?

Cheers
-Mark


--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net> wrote:

> > From: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
> > Subject: Re: chromium license
> > To: "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > Cc: "Mark B. Allan" <mallanmba@yahoo.com>
> > Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 7:27 AM
> > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:07 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
>> > > I would very much like to package chromium for Fedora,
> > but there is one
>> > > small problem remaining, the main license for chromium
> > as included in
>> > > the tarbal is the *original* artistic license,
> > unfortunately that has been
>> > > deemed as a bad (troublesome) license by Fedora's
> > legal counsil
>> > > (lawyers != fun). So I wonder if you would be willing
> > to replace the
>> > > license with the clarified version of the artistic
> > license (relicense
>> > > is a big word here, if you do a side by side
> > comparison the differences
>> > > are very minimal).
>> > > 
>> > > You can find the clarified version of the artistic
> > license here:
>> > >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/ArtisticClarified
> > 
> > I'd be happy to re-license the parts of the code I
> > wrote to pretty-much
> > any license, especially if that were the GNU GPLv3.
> > 
> > -- 
> > bye,
> > pabs
> > 
> > http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/