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by crazysim 4843 days ago
Any idea on the licensing issues? It would be great if Google "released" the source.
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Google's Chrome extensions are BSD like license

Assuming you've installed the extension you can grab its source from Chrome .config directory * which I imported and updated to github: https://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss

The actual original source in SVN/Git may already be public but i've no idea where it is - somewhere deep in the chromium repo??

I wouldn't call the Google Talk extension to be under the BSD license even though it is Google's. This extension is far simpler than that though.

As for the original source, it's not in the Chromium repo:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#search/&q=...

@crazysim - this is from the source of the extension

<!-- * Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. Use of this * source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the * LICENSE file. -->

It isn't that I don't believe you, but I don't see a license file in any of the Google-owned extensions I have installed. Source?
refer the header is this file i imported into github

* https://github.com/justinkelly/chrome-rss/blob/master/common...

<!-- * Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. Use of this * source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the * LICENSE file. -->