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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Looking at the file that has Blink and FFmpeg linked (chrome_child.dll on Windows, anyway), I'm not sure it actually contains anything that isn't reproducible with the Chromium source?
That's possible. On Linux it's the main chrome binary. That's why I asked in the OP if that entire file was reproducible from Chromium source.
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I'm not sure what's not in Chromium anymore. Flash is delayloaded/downloaded (via pepper + updater), and that code is OSS - not sure what else they could be linking to make it unreproducible? Telemetry is also the same.
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I guess the logos and such, but that's in resource files probably? I'm just wondering if there's anything code-wise that is different about Chrome, other than bundling plugins (like widevine, but that's a solib)...
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