Think those builds should be hosted by those downstreams anyhow. Cordova is
sort of the low level, on the metal, default webview and building these
things is a very deliberate choice by the end developer using the platform.
Moz should host Gecko builds. Chromium should host custom ChromeViews
(someday, I dream) and, Crosswalk should host their thing. Etc. Maybe
someday we can get an IE binary from Microsoft. Dare to dream.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So, when Apache publishes something, it has fill the following criteria:
> >
> > - All source code must have their licence headers intact
> > - All third-party source code must be mentioned in the NOTICE file
> > - No Binary Blobs - No compiled libraries, which include JARs and
> > shared object files (including the pak).
> >
> > Now, with Crosswalk, there's obviously the Chromium Library that we
> > need, so we need a way to get that into the generated project somehow.
> >  The easiest way is with plugman, but the issue is that Apache can't
> > legally pass around binary blobs when it does an official release of
> > anything.  Intel, OTOH, isn't restricted by cumbersome open source
> > foundation rules, and can do so.
> >
>
> Intel has their own rules to follow, certainly, but we're presuming here
> that Intel has already worked out the legal requirements to distribute
> Crosswalk in the first place, so the idea of Intel also distributing the
> "official" Crosswalk Cordova Engine plugin just seems to make a lot of
> sense.
>
> Apache distributes Cordova-Android, which defines the integration API, and
> includes the default AndroidWebView classes, and other parties should be
> free to distribute their own engine plugins, implementing that API. That
> distribution can then be in any form that makes sense (and complies with
> the licenses of the various components)
>
> Joe's right that it would be awkward, if not impossible, for Apache to
> distribute the Crosswalk core library. We'd have to include the 15GB of
> source as well, at the very least, and that doesn't sound like fun at all.
> It *is* all open-source, but there are a lot of different licenses in
> there, and we'd need some lawyerly help to make sure that the ASF could
> release software that included it all.
>
> Ian
>
>
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Hu, Ningxin <ningxin...@intel.com>
> wrote:
> > >> - who publishes the plugins, intel or cordova?
> > >
> > > For this open, could someone elaborate it a little bit more? What does
> > it mean? I remembered someone mentioned the license is open in the
> > hangouts, any details?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -ningxin
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: mmo...@google.com [mailto:mmo...@google.com] On Behalf Of
> Michal
> > >> Mocny
> > >> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 12:53 AM
> > >> To: dev
> > >> Subject: Re: [Android] Refactoring for different engines
> > >>
> > >> Notes:
> > >>
> > >> - native junit tests needs fixing (due to deprication)
> > >>
> > >> - common script for creating walk mobilespec
> > >>
> > >> - fix failing mobile spec tests (file-transfer?, media?)
> > >>
> > >> - who publishes the plugins, intel or cordova?
> > >>
> > >> - static vs dynamic xwalk lib
> > >>
> > >>   - (option) one plugin, use hooks to download static library
> > >>
> > >>   - (option) one plugin, just bundle static lib
> > >>
> > >>   - (option) one plugin, download static lib on app run
> > >>
> > >>   - (option) two plugins, xwalk lib bundled in a separate plugin, and
> > can be added
> > >> as a <dep>?
> > >>
> > >> - intel vs arm binary apk targets for CLI.  Two android platforms, or
> > just two build
> > >> targets?
> > >>
> > >> - How long to get GeckoView: Joe not sure. days to weeks :(
> > >>
> > >>   - Not blocking, though
> > >>
> > >> - plugman works to install but CLI does not, lets figure that out
> > >>
> > >> - Other platforms: Windows Phone support!?  BB10?!
> > >>
> > >> - Can we share code between xwalk WebViewClient and gecko view
> > >> WebViewClient etc?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Josh Soref <jso...@blackberry.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Ian Clelland wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > https://staging.talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/_/7ecpi3uaclcuedn7imn6b
> > >> > 9jdq
> > >> > >c
> > >> >
> > >> > https://talkgadget.google.com/hangouts/_/7ecpi3uaclcuedn7imn6b9jdqc
> > >> >
> > >> > Might work. Staging is probably internal.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> >
>

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