On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:44:25PM -0700, Peter Kasting wrote: > 2009/6/11 David Jones <ds...@163.com> > > > As listed in http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html#3rdparty , > > there're three different licenses of webkit in chrome: > > BSD <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php>/LGPL 2/LGPL > > 2.1<http://opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php> > > > > > > Why? > > > > For the same reason the Mozilla code lists three licenses: because the code > is tri-licensed. It is offered simultaneously under three different > licenses.
Technically, that is not true. While (most of) Mozilla code is effectively tri-licensed, i.e. released under the terms of the three licences, WebKit code is partly licensed under each one, i.e. parts are under 2-clause BSD, parts under 3-clause BSD, and parts under LGPL 2 or 2.1. Mike _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
