Re: mozembed widget

Philippe Laporte wrote:

> Hi,
>     This is about GTK widgets to embed Gecko/Mozilla.
>
> The mozilla tree provides gtkmozembed. This has very limited 
> functionality.
>
> Galeon subclasses gtkmozembed and adds lots of functionality, but that 
> widget is licensed under GPL.
>
> I haven't looked at epiphany yet, nor am I aware of much of the 
> motives behind it.
>
> Does it use the same mozembed widget as Galeon? 

They all use the mozembed widget.

>
>
> If so, since the set of functionalities in gtkmozembed is somewhat 
> arbitrary, did anyone ever consider integrating the code into 
> gtkmozembed in the mozilla tree? If so, what were the hurdles? Only 
> that  they wanted a more restrictive license? Or, is it possible to 
> have the widget released under LGPL?
>
> If not, can the epiphany mozembed widget be released under LGPL? 

That's up to the epiphany folks, but all that code is based on the 
mozembed code that's in the Mozilla tree.  I didn't add to much 
functionality to the embedding widget because I didn't think that it 
needed too much.  I didn't want to set any UI policy because it was just 
supposed to be a widget that covered 80% of the functionality needed and 
that's it.

Mozilla releases a browser that's XUL based.  We leave it up to native 
integration folks to do the native work if they choose to.

--Chris