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charmbracelet/vhs a cli tool installs Chrome in the background without permission - is this still Open Source?

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charmbracelet/vhs a cli tool installs Chrome in the background without permission - is this still Open Source?
>So this issue [https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/issues/438] is brought up by me over 2.5 years ago, and nothing changed since then. The issue is now the in top 3 highest upvoted Issue [https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+state%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc] on this repo. At what point is it still open source, if it downloads without your permission a proprietary component that is used to run the software? > >It connects to Google server and downloads Google Chrome. One user reported this process cannot be stopped with Ctrl+c (I didn’t try that). It does not ask your permission to do so, and on the README nothing about this was (and still is) disclosed. All I asked is to add an information in the README, so anyone is warned and informed about this before installing. After over 2 years, none of the developers and contributors even acknowledge the issue or any comment whatsoever. > >Note: vhs is a terminal application to record input and output of your terminal commands, to replay them later without video recording. Cool project and concept, but this is a no go and to me even malicious

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