Re: [Epiphany] Re: mozembed widget

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco it gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:58, Doug Turner wrote:
> CC'ing the epiphany mailing list.
> 
> 
> Philippe Laporte wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     This is about GTK widgets to embed Gecko/Mozilla.
> > 
> > The mozilla tree provides gtkmozembed. This has very limited functionality.
> > 
> > Galeon subclasses gtkmozembed and adds lots of functionality, but that 
> > widget is licensed under GPL.
> > 
> > I haven't looked at epiphany yet, nor am I aware of much of the motives 
> > behind it.
> > 
> > Does it use the same mozembed widget as Galeon?
> > 
> > If so, since the set of functionalities in gtkmozembed is somewhat 
> > arbitrary, did anyone ever consider integrating the code into 
> > gtkmozembed in the mozilla tree? If so, what were the hurdles? Only that 
> >  they wanted a more restrictive license? Or, is it possible to have the 
> > widget released under LGPL?

Philippe, sorry to not have replied to your private mail. My queue is
just too long these days.

The reason they has not been integrated in gtkmozembed is that Blizzard,
the mantainer of that code, want to keep api very simple. I'm not sure
which extensions you need, I'd check with him if he would accept patches
for them before decide to use ephy/galeon widget.

> > If not, can the epiphany mozembed widget be released under LGPL?

I have no problem with that. But all contributors should give permission
I guess ? (I'm not a license expert at all).
Consider that the widget add some gnome dependencies.

In general if you could explain which functionalities you need I could
be a lot more helpful.

Marco