Re: [Epiphany] Re: mozembed widget

[Philippe Laporte <philippe laporte nokia com>]

ext Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:58, Doug Turner wrote:
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>>CC'ing the epiphany mailing list.
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>>Philippe Laporte wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>    This is about GTK widgets to embed Gecko/Mozilla.
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>>>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?
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>Philippe, sorry to not have replied to your private mail. My queue is
>just too long these days.
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>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.
>
Indeed, I will push on the mozilla side before pursuing LGPL licensing 
from Galeon/epiphany.

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>>>If not, can the epiphany mozembed widget be released under LGPL?
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>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.
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>In general if you could explain which functionalities you need I could
>be a lot more helpful.
>

I'm looking at GPE, so gnome depedencies have a non-compromising future.

Thanks,
Philippe