[webkit-dev] WTF license terms

[Maciej Stachowiak]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to change the license terms for the contents of  
JavaScriptCore/wtf from LGPL to Apple modified BSD, except for the  
copy of Google's TCMalloc and the unicode/ directory. All the  
copyrights on files besides tcmalloc and unicde are held by Apple and  
it looks like the only non-Apple contributions are a handful of < 5  
line build fixes which were too small for copyright. Mainly I'd like  
to apply this to RefPtr, Vector, and the Hash-related classes.

I would like to do this to make the code usable by the widest possible  
range of projects, including even proprietary code, and open source  
projects with licenses that are not LGPL-compatible. This is basic  
data structure code, and although it is highly optimized it is not  
really specific to web browsing.

I wanted to run this proposed license change by the community. I know  
there have been some concerns about which code is BSD and which is  
LGPL. In this case, I think maximum reusability is the right thing for  
this code.

Regards,
Maciej