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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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.
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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I have, which section are you referring to? #2 " If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Library" #6 "As an exception to the Sections above... ?
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Read section #6 again. 6a) "If the work is an executable linked with the Library, with the complete [...] object code and/or source code, so that the user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified executable containing the modified Library."
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