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Microsoft asks for $5 check sent to Redmond to get 3rdparty source code for Edge

3 points by eapotapov ↗ HN
"Source code for portions of Microsoft Edge is available free of charge from https://thirdpartysource.microsoft.com under the third party open source license terms provided at https://aka.ms/thirdpartynotices and in Microsoft Edge at edge://credits after installation. Or to obtain this source code you may send a check or money order for US $5.00, including the Edge version number, to:

Source Code Compliance Team Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 USA"

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mattl
That’s fairly standard.
eapotapov
I wonder if anyone was really trying to do it, and if they have a defined procedure for such request (get the check, proceed with the source code access etc.)
mattl
I used to work (left 10 years ago) at the FSF and dealt with a lot of that kind of thing.

Also prisoners asking for books.

metadat
Why do they gate it this way? Don't they own GitHub?

Bad actors, just ludicrous..

Also, isn't it just a chromium fork? I wonder if ElGoog gave them speci licensing terms.

Chrome is released as "proprietary freeware"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome

Chromium is licensed as 3-clause BSD, which means $ms can do whatever TF they want with it. Fun.

toast0
Is it a gate? I mean, I guess it's an OR-gate... Do you want it free? You can download it. Do you want it on a disc? Send $5 and you'll get it.
pinewurst
There’s a big misunderstanding here. The $5 would be to obtain a physical copy of the source code if the inquiry cannot be satisfied (for free!) online.
cbhl
If anything, the opposite problem has caught a lot of folks off guard -- GPL and other copyleft used to require (require!) you to provide physical media in exchange for a check; an online link used to be insufficient to fulfill your source distribution requirements.