On Jan 19, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Dmitry Titov wrote:
In the proposed patch the ThreadingWin.cpp would contain 2 licenses - standard WebKit one and a copy of Pthread-win32 license (LGPL). The latter is there because the code for ThreadCondition is derived from the sources of that library (removing the need to pull in the whole library for 50 lines of code).
Does this idea look acceptable? Can we use LGPL'ed source this way and how should we go about the license if we can?
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