Google Chrome Extension Gallery treads lightly on copyright issues

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With its doors open to uploads and everyone buzzing about Google Chrome for one reason or another, the Extensions Gallery will be arriving soon. And while there's usually open(source)ness involved when talking about Google and Chrome, the Gallery isn't going to be quite as open as we might have thought.

Unlike Mozilla's add-on site for Firefox, it appears as though things are going to run in a slightly more Apple-esque fashion.

Developer Deepesh Agarwal submitted a Chrome port of his Firefox add-on Easy YouTube Downloader. Google declined to approve the extension, saying "Unfortunately, there are a few cases where legal restrictions or contractual obligations prevent us from hosting an extension(*). One of those cases is with certain kinds of video downloaders..."

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