Bug 6364 - No licensing information on webkit website
Summary: No licensing information on webkit website
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKit Website (show other bugs)
Version: 420+
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2006-01-03 22:39 PST by tor
Modified: 2007-01-06 03:35 PST (History)
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Description tor 2006-01-03 22:39:11 PST 
I wasn't able to find information about what license the WebKit source is under
on the website.  While I understand that this information would be in a pulled
source tree, including this information on a project's site is somewhat standard
and allows people to check the license before potentially tainting themselves
with source.
Comment 1 Justin Haygood 2006-01-07 12:27:02 PST 
Different parts of the source is under licences afaik.

Apple specific portions of the libraries are under a new style BSD-like license,
and the rest is under LGPL. (As a whole, I believe the entire library is LGPLed)
Could explain why.
Comment 2 Joost de Valk (AlthA) 2006-02-08 11:50:31 PST 
Confirmed, this is not an easy thing to do though.
Comment 3 Alexey Proskuryakov 2007-01-06 03:35:11 PST 
The sidebar at http://webkit.org now says: "WebKit is open source software with portions licensed under the LGPL and BSD licenses. Complete license and copyright information can be found within the code."