Re: [Dev] [libreplanet-discuss] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-23 Thread Elyzabeth von Reuenthal
QtWebEngine doesn't contain *all* of chromium. It contains Blink; uses the Skia rendering library over the Qt rendering system; the Chromium networking stack and cookie management. A more extensive list of features can be found here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html Apart from

Re: [Dev] [libreplanet-discuss] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-22 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > hopefully people migrating to the chromium engine are sympathetic with > the

Re: [Dev] [libreplanet-discuss] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-15 Thread Hanno Böck
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 20:05:52 -0600 Isaac David wrote: > It could very well be free by now, but only if you are willing to > overlook the fact that it's not actually being built from sources. > The chromium repository still distributes and uses some object > code,

Re: [Dev] [libreplanet-discuss] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-14 Thread Isaac David
Le lun. 9 janv. 2017 à 15:24, Hanno Böck a écrit : I've read through the entire thread now and tried to follow the links, yet I can't find any evidence for the claim that chromium is nonfree. It could very well be free by now, but only if you are willing to overlook the fact

Re: [Dev] [libreplanet-discuss] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-09 Thread fauno
Hanno Böck writes: > I'd also want to note that there are good reasons why people want to > move from webkit to the chrome rendering engine. Many applications > using webkit have been stuck with unfixed security vulnerabilities in > the past. The chromium engine is well

Re: [Dev] [libreplanet-discuss] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-09 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 23:15:44 -0300 André Silva wrote: > Hi guys, since Chromium is blacklisted as nonfree software [0] we > have a serious issue. KDE is migrating their apps to QTWebEngine > which contains Chromium as the embed engine inside it. [1] I've read through

Re: [Dev] [libreplanet-discuss] QTWebengine is nonfree

2017-01-08 Thread André Silva
On 01/08/2017 01:06 PM, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > I guess that we could contact the KDE project and tell them the issue so > they can rethink about their move. Would you like report about it to them? it could be a good idea. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature