Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

[Giovanni Biscuolo]

Hello Luke,

I'm replying _only_ about the DRM issue you reported

please consider there is an opened bug for this issue:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34565

for specific issues about DRM in Guix ungoogled-chromium package please
comment that bug including address@hidden

...at least until is still open :-)

I'm not including address@hidden because IMHO all your concerns
are well addressed in the bug report thread

Luke <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but Widevine DRM and the ability to run
> proprietary codecs is still being built according to the provided
> package source?

no

> That's definitely a blocker.
>
> While completely removing the DRM ability and creating a clean source
> tarball is optimal, it should at minimum be disabled at compile time to
> protect users.

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34565#58

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For DRM to work, the user has to build with "enable_widevine=true", and
then somehow obtain 'libwidevinecdm.so' and make the browser use it.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

this means that DRM *is* disabled at compile time and _also_ that
libwidevinecdm.so is not included in Guix ungoogled-chromium source

[...]

Thanks!
Giovanni

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Giovanni Biscuolo

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