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Re: [dsdp-pmc] FW: webkit4swt status - CQ rejected due to LGPL dependency
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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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