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September 2, 2008

The Chromium software and sample code developed by Google is licensed under the BSD license. Other software included in this distribution is provided under other licenses, as listed in the Included Software and Licenses section at the bottom of this page. Source code for software included in this distribution is available from the Chromium website.

For third party implementations, we have provided guidelines on the proper usage of Google branding and attribution.

BSD License

Copyright © 2008, The Chromium Authors
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  • Neither the name of the Google Inc. nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Included Software and Licenses

The following third party software is distributed with Chromium and is provided under other licenses and/or has source available from other locations.

Package Name License
bsdiff BSD Protection License
bspatch BSD Protection License
bzip2 BSD license
dtoa BSD license
hunspell MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL
ICU ICU license
JSCRE BSD license
libjpeg libjpeg license
libpng libpng license
libxml MIT license
libxslt MIT license
LZMA SDK Special exception license
modp_b64 BSD license
Mozilla interface to Java Plugin APIs MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL
npapi MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL
nspr MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL
nss MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL
Pthreads for win32 LGPL 2.1
sqlite Public domain
tlslite Public domain
V8 assembler BSD license
WebKit BSD/LGPL 2/LGPL 2.1
WTL Microsoft Permissive License
zlib zlib license