[Interest] QWebView vs. QWebEngine

Jean-Michaël Celerier jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 16:57:29 CET 2018


> At this page there is written next to Qt Web Engine (under LGPL only).
Therefore I concluded that the rest is GPL.

If I am not mistaken it means instead that the rest is LGPL + commercial,
which is Qt's "normal" license.

Best,
Jean-Michaël

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:27 PM, Walter Stefan <Stefan.Walter at lisec.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, because the web-page of Qt is confusing.
>
> At this page there is written next to Qt Web Engine (under LGPL only).
> Therefore I concluded that the rest is GPL.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:annulen at yandex.ru]
> Sent: Montag, 29. Jänner 2018 18:20
> To: Walter Stefan <Stefan.Walter at lisec.com>; interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] QWebView vs. QWebEngine
>
>
>
> 29.01.2018, 17:08, "Walter Stefan" <stefan.walter at lisec.com>:
> > Thanks for the quick response.
> >
> > Is there a web-link that supports this, or where can I seen the licenses
> to the Qt modules?
>
> https://webkit.org/licensing-webkit/
> http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebkit.git/tree/LICENSE.LGPLv21
>
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Stefan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:annulen at yandex.ru]
> > Sent: Montag, 29. Jänner 2018 18:05
> > To: Walter Stefan <Stefan.Walter at lisec.com>; interest at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Interest] QWebView vs. QWebEngine
> >
> > 29.01.2018, 16:58, "Walter Stefan" <stefan.walter at lisec.com>:
> >>  Hi,
> >>
> >>  I’ve done some research about QWebView and QWebEngine and came to the
> following conclusion:
> >>
> >>  QWebView is under GPL and uses internally WebKit.
> >
> > Incorrect. QtWebKit code is LGPL+BSD.
> >
> >>  QWebEngine is under LGPL and uses internally Chromium.
> >>
> >>  Please let me know if this is correct, because I don’t want to
> disclose my source and that would mean I have to use QWebEngine.
> >>
> >>  Is there beside the license other limitations to be aware of?
> >>
> >>  Thanks and Regards,
> >>
> >>  Stefan
> >>  ,
> >>
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> > --
> > Regards,
> > Konstantin
>
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> Konstantin
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