libseed-list Seed Licensing

[Alexandre Mazari <scaroo gmail com>]

Hello Seeders,

As part of the Webkit Gtk port, we are currently investigating adding an
API to expose a GObject within a Webframe js context.

Seed already has most of the plumbing required to expose GIR types and
instances in a JSCore engine so there might be a good opportunity to
share this code with your agreement.

Though, this would expose a licensing issue. Indeed, Seed sources can
only be redistributed in a codebase licensed under the LGPL3+ where
webkit-gtk is licensed under LGPL2+. FSF advisors confirmed that
redistributing some Seed-derived code within webkit-gtk would be a
breach of Seed licensing terms.

The obvious solution would be that Seed switches to a LGPL 2+ licence
model. Of course, this would requires an agreement from you guys (and
girls).

Does such a request seem reasonable to you ?

Thanks for considering this and all your great work.

Regards,

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Alexandre Mazari <amazari igalia com>