Thanks, I will bring this to [email protected] later. Best Regards, YorkShen
申远 Jan Piotrowski <[email protected]> 于2019年6月12日周三 上午1:54写道： > > Cordova does too, so Jan may be able to answer. > > Apache Cordova fortunately only _uses_ it via APIs that are offered by the > OS, and does not _include_ it (or any of its code) - so this problem never > came up. > > -J > > Am Di., 11. Juni 2019 um 18:32 Uhr schrieb Myrle Krantz <[email protected] > >: > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:20 PM 申远 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > But you say "a mixture of LGPL and BSD license at runtime". What do > > you > > > > mean by that? Is there a way to reduce that to just BSD? Or are you > > > using > > > > WebCore or JavaScriptCore? > > > > > > > > > According to the document, "WebKit is open source software with > portions > > > licensed under the LGPL and BSD licenses available here." [1] and Weex > > just > > > has a dynamic link to the shared library of WebKit. IMO, the license of > > > Webkit is really a mess, I really don't know whether Weex will invoke > > LGPL > > > part of Webkit at runtime, or there is a call chain will will lead to > > LGPL > > > code eventually, like Weex.apiA-> Webkit.BSD.apiA -> Webkit.BSD.apiB -> > > > Webkit.LGPL.apiC > > > > > > > I suggest asking on the [email protected] list. With luck, > > you'll find someone there who's looked at this more deeply. (Actually > > Flex seems to use some part from webkit, so Justin may be able to answer > > this question. Cordova does too, so Jan may be able to answer.) And if > > not, they may send you on to the [email protected] list. My guess is > that, > > if you're only using the parts that you can access using the BSD-licensed > > headers, that you can consider it to be licensed under BSD. I hope this > is > > true. But I don't actually know. > > > > But what I do know is that all of the header files of a certain directory > > > [2] in Webkit are under BSD License. And after some major change, Weex > > > could just import the header file I mentioned at compiling stage, > though > > at > > > runtime Weex has to dynamic link to the shared library of Webkit as > > before. > > > As for glibc(sorry for my misspelling, it's not glic, it's glibc), > which > > is > > > also under LGPL license, any serious program could invoke the glibc by > > > simply a *malloc* function in a *.c file. I don't see any difference > > there > > > between Weex using Webkit and any other C program using glibc. > > > > > > > The point is that, if there are alternatives (which there are for the c > > runtime), then the dependency is optional for your user. Optional > > dependencies are treated differently than required dependencies for ASF > > release policy. But again, I suggest asking on [email protected]. > > > > Best Regards, > > Myrle > > >
