Thank you very much for the explaintation. On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 15:39 +0800, Theodore Xu wrote: > > In "Webkit" folder, there is a BSD 2 clause "LICENSE" file, so the > > "Webkit" part of WebkitGTK is BSD license. However, in "Webkit2" > > folder, > > there is no "LICENSE" file under it, so what's the license type of > > the > > "Webkit2" part of WebkitGTK? > > Hi, > > The effective license is LGPLv2+ (which is more restrictive than the > BSD license). Most individual files are licensed using the BSD license, > but this is only useful for you if you want to copy code from one > particular file to some other project. > > The Mac ports are set up so that the WebKit2 directory is supposed to > be BSD-only, but we have many GTK-specific LGPLv2+ code in there. (I > see a couple cross-platform LGPL files in there as well, which looks > like a mistake.) The Mac port dynamically links WebKit2 to WebCore, so > it's possible to have different (compatible) licenses for these > projects on that port. (In WebKitGTK+ we static link WebKit2 to > WebCore.) > > Michael >
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