Commons:Deletion requests/Google Chrome screenshots

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Commons:Deletion requests/Google Chrome screenshots

  • Add {{delete|reason=Fill in reason for deletion here!|subpage=Google Chrome screenshots|year=2024|month=October|day=19}} to the description page of each file.
  • Notify the uploader(s) with {{subst:idw||Google Chrome screenshots|plural}} ~~~~
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Google Chrome screenshots

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Google Chrome is not a free and open source software (FLOSS) and not under the BSD License. Google Chrome Terms of Service explicitly claims:

“ 9.2 Subject to section 1.2, you may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google, in writing. ”

Google Chrome and Chromium are two different browsers. The Terms considered here to be Google Chrome's official license explanation to prove this screenshot can stay on Commons, is actually Chromium's. Chromium is a FLOSS under BSD, MIT and some other free licenses. Although the BSD'ed V8 engine, BSD'ed and LGPL'ed WebKit and some other part of Google Chrome are FLOSS, the whole Google Chrome itself is not. Google Chrome is "open sourced" by letting users know the code of the similar Chromium, but in fact, among Chromium's code, no one knows exactly which are used by Google Chrome, which are not, and which are modified. Google Chrome is source closed and non-free, legally and actually. These screenshots thus not allowed on Commons, they must be transfered to Wikipedia projects.

(btw, the reason for deletion here is different to the previous one of File:Google Chrome.png, the previous deletion request where window borders are considered copyrightable was too pointy, and in that discussion no one pointed out the real issue: Google Chrome is non-free.)

All the images in Category:Screenshots of Google Chrome are listed above. If they are deleted, the category should be deleted also. On Commons we have such categories only for free browsers like Google Chromium and Mozilla Firefox.

If you want a screenshot of a web page but not the broswer, use Chromium or Firefox, or cut off the Chrome looks. If you really need to show what Google Chrome looks like in a Wikipedia article, you can still upload the screenshot of Google Chrome to Wikipedia project as a fair use.

--Tomchen1989 (talk) 03:34, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... I am neutral. Because the screenshot of Google Chrome takes only a small part of the whole picture... But I don't really understand their copyright policy, so it might be copyrighted... Hydriz (talk) 08:28, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
“ These Terms of Service apply to the executable code version of Google Chrome. Source code for Google Chrome is available free of charge under open source software license agreements at http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html. ”
All user interface elements of Google Chrome available there - http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/app/theme/ under BSD licence. --Sasha Krotov (talk) 17:29, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

@ Tomchen1989: Could you please be so kind to discuss such a problem on the basis of one example next time? --Mbdortmund (talk) 23:07, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kept. Jcb (talk) 14:25, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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