Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 12, Issue 37

[thisguyisi]

David Ayers wrote:
> Chad Hardin
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> > On Nov 27, 2003, at 5:43 PM, David Rogers wrote:
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> > > There are several open sourced libs that
> > > can help out with most of those.  OmniGroup has Apple's WebCore
> > > available for download, I think that should be the backend for both the
> > > web browser and the development tool. There is also a _javascript_
> > > interface there too.
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> > > http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/Source/MacOSX/Frameworks/
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> > This has been looked into, unless Omni recently changed the license,
> > you cannot distribute modified source code.  Since the source code
> > would have to modified to work on GNUstep, there is no point in it.
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> Hmm. I don't have an OS X System to look at the license in .dmg files,
> but WebCore seems to be licensed by Apple under the LGPL:
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> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/
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> (Apple's page implies that it would also be applicable to the
> _javascript_Core.)
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> So I doubt that these will be available under a different license from
> Omni (in which case someone should look into how that was possible). 
> Now that doesn't help us with any of the other Omni packages.
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> Anyway, it has been noted here before, a WebCore port for GNUstep is in
> progress:
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> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2003-10/msg00124.html
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> Cheers,
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> David
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Took a look at the licensing of _javascript_Core... The framework is a
combo of  the KDE Project's KJS library from release 3.0.2, and I
couldn't find a specific license statement (be nice, it's late, i
Googled...) and PCRE, with the PCRE License.

Best Regards,
-Lee