Hi Merle, A footnote on your list below.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 14, 2019, at 2:39 AM, Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org> wrote: > > I feel like the answers provided here up till now are too simple. I > believe we have projects at Apache which seem to be using, or have used > Webkit: ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-232?jql=text%20~%20%22webkit%22 > ) > * Flex > * Myfaces > * Shindig (?) > * Cordova > * Wave > * Corinthia This type of licensing issue is what caused Corinthia to fail Incubation. (Actually the insistence by a PPMC member that everything be instantly pure killed developer desire.) Please be careful using retired podlings for licensing examples. Regards, Dave > * Netbeans > * Apollo > > I'm not completely confident of that list, since some of these projects may > be running *in* webkit-based browsers. It's hard to determine for certain > while skimming Jira issues in projects I'm not involved in. : o) So please > don't treat this list as authoritative. But if I'm reading that correctly, > there are already several Apache TLP projects which use Webkit. > > So this question may have been seen before. Justin, one of the projects > which seems to currently be using Webkit is Flex. Given the weird > part-by-part licensing, how did Flex justify it's decision? Or am I > misreading, and Webkit is just an environment for Flex? > > My hope (probably too naive) is that if Weex is using only the part of > Webkit that can be accessed via BSD-licensed headers, that that is enough > to say they are using only a BSD-licensed run-time dependency. > > But if it's all open source, one possibility is to build a Webkit binary > without the LGPL parts. I haven't looked at how nice their build process > is. Building webkit without certain parts might be hard. YorkShen's > suggestion to replace Webkit might be easier. > > Your thoughts? > > Best Regards, > Myrle --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
