[webkit-dev] about webkit's license in chrome

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:44:25PM -0700, Peter Kasting wrote:
> 2009/6/11 David Jones <dsave at 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