From 1f7c911395dac4360b4d3d5b31f5ff6e85917014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mario Sanchez Prada Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:14:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add a explicit mention to the licenses used by WPE and its components Add a new entry at the top of the FAQ to explicitly list the different licenses used for WPE, libwpe, WPEBackend-FDO and Cog, with links to the relevant copies of such licenses. --- about/faq.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/about/faq.md b/about/faq.md index ab6e3a260..26072b289 100644 --- a/about/faq.md +++ b/about/faq.md @@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ sitemapChangeFrequency: monthly [[toc]] +## What licenses WPE and its related components are published under? + +WPE is an Open Source project developed upstream as part of [the WebKit project](https://webkit.org), with all its code being pushed to [WebKit's upstream repository](https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit). Therefore, **WPE is published under under a mix of LGPLv2 and BSD licenses**, which are the licenses applying to the WebKit project as a whole. You can [find a copy of such licenses in the webkit.org website](https://webkit.org/licensing-webkit). + +As for the **other components**, they all use Open Source licenses, but they vary across each component: + +* libwpe: [BSD-2-Clause license](https://github.com/WebPlatformForEmbedded/libwpe/blob/master/COPYING) (also known as _“Simplified BSD License”_). +* WPEBackend-fdo: [BSD-2-Clause license](https://github.com/Igalia/WPEBackend-fdo/blob/master/COPYING). +* Cog: [MIT license](https://github.com/Igalia/cog/blob/master/COPYING). + ## What is the difference between WebPlatformForEmbedded's WPE and WPEWebKit? Historically, the [WebPlatformForEmbedded flavor of WPE](https://github.com/WebPlatformForEmbedded/WPEWebKit) came first. It included several adaptations for the Reference Design Kit (RDK) platform, as well as different fixes for its supported devices. Quoting the [RDK](https://rdkcentral.com/) website: