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

[Jeremy Orlow]

The license is assigned on a per-file basis and can be found at the top of
the file.

2009/6/12 David Jones <dsave at 163.com>

> well, is there a doc about that?
> or, could you describe it more detailedly ? I want to know which part is
> under BSD, LGPL and so on.
> I don't find a license illustration in webkit's src.
>
> >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
> 21<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
>
>
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