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Hi Everyone,
This is a quick summary of the CQ to include a
WebKit4SWT contribution that my team has developed and been using for the past
10 months. One of our Blinki project goals has been to leverage
webkit4swt to provide the foundation for a mobile web tooling
framework. When we submitted the CQ we knew the WebKit LGPL code was most likely
out of scope due to Eclipse policy to avoid hosting GPL/LGPL code. But
we proceeded with the effort as a formality to see if there has been any
relaxation of the policy (we heard rumors that LGPL may be accepted at some
point). We were politely informed that the webkit LGPL code was a concern and
we agreed to close the CQ since we have a fallback plan of hosting the
framework outside of Eclipse.
Our relationship and interaction with the
foundation has been professional and cordial in everyway regarding the
webkit4swt CQ. We are moving forward to bring a webkit solution to
Eclipse within the current policies and practices.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:00
AM
Subject: Re: [dsdp-pmc] FW: webkit4swt
status - CQ rejected due to LGPL dependency
Sorry guys for butting in, but I'm a little confused by what
happened with this CQ. Was it rejected off-line? I didn't actually see it
stated that it was rejected, just closed.
I've had discussions with
Foundation staff and it was my understanding that there was a chance that
WebKit could be approved. The platform team, actually more the vendors using
the platform, have had no end of issues with Mozilla's XUL and I was
suggesting that WebKit would be a better replacement and we could standardize
on it for the three major OSes we support.
I'm just wondering if we've
given up too easily here.
DougS.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Gaff, Doug <doug.gaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
FYI
for the PMC
Wayne, perhaps you should
update the PMC on what will be done in Eclipse vs. at the git
repository?
This is a quick update on
the status of the webkit4swt OSS contribution. The CQ https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3534 has
been rejected due to a strong LGPL dependency of WebKit. This
outcome was not totally unexpected due to long standing Eclipse
policies regarding this type of license. There are no hard feelings from
this team as we have a good Plan-B. We pursued this approach as we wanted to
go through the proper procedures to ensure that we give this project our
best effort.
Our Plan-B is to host
webkit4swt on a new GIT repository. That repo is being prepared this week
and we should soon be able to move forward with this OSS
effort.
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