[Interest] QWebView vs. QWebEngine

Walter Stefan Stefan.Walter at lisec.com
Tue Jan 30 08:38:18 CET 2018


Okay, thanks. This could have been written more clear on the webpage 😊

From: Jean-Michaël Celerier [mailto:jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com]
Sent: Montag, 29. Jänner 2018 19:57
To: Walter Stefan <Stefan.Walter at lisec.com>
Cc: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>; interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] QWebView vs. QWebEngine

> 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<mailto: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.

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From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:annulen at yandex.ru<mailto:annulen at yandex.ru>]
Sent: Montag, 29. Jänner 2018 18:20
To: Walter Stefan <Stefan.Walter at lisec.com<mailto:Stefan.Walter at lisec.com>>; interest at qt-project.org<mailto:interest at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Interest] QWebView vs. QWebEngine



29.01.2018, 17:08, "Walter Stefan" <stefan.walter at lisec.com<mailto: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<mailto:annulen at yandex.ru>]
> Sent: Montag, 29. Jänner 2018 18:05
> To: Walter Stefan <Stefan.Walter at lisec.com<mailto:Stefan.Walter at lisec.com>>; interest at qt-project.org<mailto:interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] QWebView vs. QWebEngine
>
> 29.01.2018, 16:58, "Walter Stefan" <stefan.walter at lisec.com<mailto: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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