Bug 20473 - vivaldi, customisable web-browser (proprietary, chromium-based)
Summary: vivaldi, customisable web-browser (proprietary, chromium-based)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New RPM package request (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Low enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: All Packagers
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: 24686 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2017-03-14 11:11 CET by Daniel Kalweit
Modified: 2019-04-18 03:25 CEST (History)
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Description Daniel Kalweit 2017-03-14 11:11:07 CET
Would it be possible to add Vivaldi to the repository?

I hoped it would be included in Mageia 6. In several other Distros it is already...

Vivaldi is the new (old)Opera.
Daniel Kalweit 2017-03-14 11:11:40 CET

Priority: Normal => Low

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2017-03-14 11:22:03 CET
Vivaldi is closed source software (their website says nothing at all about licensing, apparently you have to install it first to read the license) and they already provide RPMs on their website.

And do you know if that license allows us to legally redistribute it?

What other distributions distribute it already, can you give us examples? I'm especially interested in Fedora and Debian because most of the time they take legal issues seriously.
Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2017-03-14 11:26:46 CET
Assigning to all packagers as done usually for new package requests.

As Samuel mentioned though, since it's closed source and upstream already provides binaries, and since maintaining browser package is a lot of work, I doubt any of our current packagers would want to package Vivaldi for Mageia.

I'm not saying that it will never happen though, we did have Opera packaged in the past, and we do package nonfree applications such as Skype or Steam.

Component: RPM Packages => New RPM package request
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Summary: Vivaldi (Webbrowser) not in Repository => vivaldi, customisable web-browser (proprietary, chromium-based)

Comment 3 Daniel Kalweit 2017-03-14 15:23:35 CET
Thanks for your answer.

I'm sorry but I mixed it up with another Browser - I don't know if Vivaldi is already in the Repo of other Distros.
But Vivaldi seems to be working with some Distros to do it. You can read it here:

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/12516/distros-with-difficult-or-lacking-vivaldi-install
Comment 4 Marc Krämer 2017-11-13 10:26:31 CET
stated by vivaldi it should be no problem to do a repackaging without (internal) modification:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/62adz5/the_vivaldi_source_code_license_and_the_eula/

As stated (at least), packages for gentoo
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/vivaldi
and slackware 
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/network/vivaldi/

are available. Since in the official build h264 is not working, since it is not shipped and not provided as an extra package by mga (#20108) this would be a great benefit.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 5 katnatek 2019-04-18 03:25:40 CEST
*** Bug 24686 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => Kaiohenrique660


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