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throgh [The Bigger Picture]
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 Chromium is also being used as an **embedded framework in various projects**. Chromium is also being used as an **embedded framework in various projects**.
  
-Users should be aware that **Qt WebEngine is based on Chromium and therefore contains many of the same flaws**. [[https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html#audio-and-video-codecs|Proprietary codecs and other anti-features]] **must be removed at compile time** to ensure user's freedom is respected. Due to Qt being a primary component of KDE and many applications, ensuring it is compiled correctly and **removing nonfree software** is of even greater importance to the [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-intro.en.html|Free Software Movement]].+Users should be aware that **Qt WebEngine is based on Chromium and therefore contains many of the same flaws**. [[https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html#audio-and-video-codecs|Proprietary codecs and other anti-features]] **must be removed at compile time** to ensure user's freedom is respected. Due to Qt being a primary component of KDE and many applications, ensuring it is compiled correctly and **removing non-free software** is of even greater importance to the [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-intro.en.html|Free Software Movement]].
  
-For our freedom's sake, **free software projects should take care about all kinds of freedom issues** when deciding what components to depend on. +For freedom's sake, **free software projects should take care about all kinds of freedom issues** when deciding what components to depend on.
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-We are hopeful that the various projects currently working with Chromium source code will make Chromium fully respect both **users' freedom and users' privacy**, making the internet safer, as well as more freedom respecting, for everyone.+
  
 +**Chromium will always stay a pure corporate project** and therefore funded aside also controlled by Google / Alphabet. Therefore the software itself cannot be called free and libre in any given way when looking over the noted points and the background of the project itself.
 ===== Licensing ===== ===== Licensing =====
  
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 The [[https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html|GNU Free Documentation License]] as published by the Free Software; either version 1.3, or (at your option) any later version; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. The [[https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html|GNU Free Documentation License]] as published by the Free Software; either version 1.3, or (at your option) any later version; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
  
-===== Acknowledgement ===== 
  
-Most of this documentation was originally written by [[https://www.hyperbola.info/members/founders/#Gaming4JC|Luke .R]].