However, in terms of governance, "Chromium Projects" are not independent entities Google retains firm control of them. Google refers to this project and the offshoot Chromium OS as "The Chromium Projects", and its employees use email addresses for this development work. Contributors Ĭhromium has been a Google project since its inception, and Google employees have done the bulk of the development work. The Chromium browser codebase contains about 35 million source lines of code. Unlike Chromium, Chrome is not open-source, so its binaries are licensed as freeware under the Google Chrome Terms of Service. While Chrome has the same user interface functionality as Chromium, it changes the color scheme to the Google-branded one. Tracking mechanisms for usage and crash reports.Licensed codecs for the popular H.264 video and AAC audio formats.API keys for some Google services, including browser sync.Features Ĭhromium lacks the following Chrome features: Differences from Google Chrome Ĭhromium provides the vast majority of source code for Google Chrome, so the name "Chromium" was chosen by Google because chromium metal is used in chrome plating.
Thus many Linux distributions do this, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. This licensing permits any party to build the codebase and share the resulting browser executable with the Chromium name and logo. Other parts are subject to a variety of licenses, including MIT, LGPL, Ms-PL, and an MPL/ GPL/ LGPL tri-license. The Google-authored portion is shared under the 3-clause BSD license. Chromium is an entirely free and open-source software project.
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