THIS IS NOT A BUG REPORT. HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE FROM THE BRAVE DEV TEAM, PLEASE READ ON. Description of the issue: I am currently looking into packaging a built-from-source version of Brave that could make it into Arch Linux Official Community Repo (currently the PKGBUILD file can be found in AUR). …

You can find the license at brave://settings/help If you have more specific questions, I suggest you contact Brave Support. Or maybe @steeven or @Mattches could help you

Thanks. Finally someone could help. I’ll investigate into MPL 2.0. Meanwhile, the thread would not be labelled as resolved.

Hi there @rdtck Sorry for the long response time I think it’s fine to build from source and distribute, but it’s important to make clear that it’s an unofficial distribution. If there’s someone publishing one claiming to be official please let us know Only Brave Software has the signing keys and …

But once you enabled the --official_build option during build time, the output binary would label itself as official.

Part of the official build process is the signing. We have our public signing keys shared so the binary that gets output can be verified by anyone as official [image] Brave Signing Keys | Brave Browser Brave Signing Keys With --official_build enabled, there a…

Well clarified, but I still have some questions on this. Let’s take the Chromium builds on Arch Linux as an example. There’s actually an Google API key dedicated for Arch Linux “Official” build on the Arch side, which can be found on the official PKGBUILD . So, I don’t think that will be a problem. …

These service keys can be rotated at any given time; so if the specific key was discovered by reverse engineering, it would only be good for an unspecified amount of time. The concern here is that forks, etc can be making use of Brave Software owned/maintained services which have an ownership cost w…

I totally understand the situation you described where third-party forks uses the same key and therefore taking advantage of Brave officially maintained services, and I do appreciate it and hope that related issues can be discussed by Brave developers. However, I would like to summarize my question…

@clifton we need ad block services in our fork so is there any way that we can get services keys for that or can we build that service ourselves if the code is opensource ?

Does Brave allow the distribution of self-compiled or distro-compiled binaries?

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Did you or anyone from the team get a chance to look at those questions or have more information to share, @clifton?

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Does Brave allow the distribution of self-compiled or distro-compiled binaries?

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