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One could argue that the BSD licence the chromium code is under has disadvantages in comparison to GPL, but saying outright “not open source” is just utter nonsense.
Isn’t that objectively a false statement?
no; it’s not open source; it’s closed source by google given window dressing to appear open source.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Google Chrome, which is a proprietary soft fork of Chromium?
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I don’t think you understand what “open source” means then?
To put it simply: a programme using a license that guarantees certain freedoms.
Chromium uses such a license: the 3-Clause BSD license
One could argue that the BSD licence the chromium code is under has disadvantages in comparison to GPL, but saying outright “not open source” is just utter nonsense.