Idle thought: can you build Google Chrome's `chrome` binary from Chromium source code, verbatim? Is this documented anywhere? If not, isn't this an LGPL violation, since it embeds Blink which is LGPL-licensed?
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Then it's an LGPL violation. The LGPL requires that the user be able to relink your code with a modified LGPL library.
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It's well known that Blink is based on WebKit which is based on KHTML which is LGPL. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink.git/+/master/Source/core/LICENSE-LGPL-2.1 …
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Unfortunately, I don't think it is a violation, unless they have proprietary bits inside of blink itself. LGPL allows you to use the lib in a proprietary bundle.
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Have you read the actual license? LGPLv2.1 requires that the user be able to replace the LGPL'ed bits with their own. Yes, you can link it with proprietary bits, as long as you meet that condition. That means using dynamic linking or distributing .o files for the proprietary bits
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