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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LGPL only means you need to be able to relink, not have the full sources. Sources for the LGPL part + .o for the proprietary part is sufficient. Dynamically linking the LGPL code also satisfies the requirement.
Google obviously does not distribute object files for the proprietary part, nor do they dynamically link anything since `chrome` is a monolithic blob. Hence, if that binary cannot be built from Chromium sources, they are currently violating the license.
