[Dev] [GNU-linux-libre] QTWebengine is nonfree

philcantor philcantor at riseup.net
Sun Jan 8 16:02:18 GMT 2017


Bad situation for free software and for people, over all... thank you 
for your explanation ;)


Il 08/01/2017 16:31, André Silva ha scritto:
> On 01/08/2017 02:48 PM, philcantor wrote:
>> Returning to the original topic, QT and KDE were previously using
>> QTWebkit. Webkit does remain fully free software, and Webkit2 is under
>> active development.
>>
>> It is not just a port of the core HTML/CSS rendering engine, *it is the
>> entire
>> Chromium platform.*"
>>
>> Ohh fuck... first of all hi to everyone! I switched to Parabola in these
>> days (good distro!).
>>
>> But this is a terrible news for me, thank you very much for sharing this
>> André Silva! But this means that also QT is in danger? I ask you this
>> because, I programming in c++ and used QT in past...
> Yes, it means that QT/KDE framework are in danger (freedom issue and
> privacy risks) because QTWebgine embeds **entire Chromium platform**.
>
>> P.S. = sorry for my terrible english eheh
> Don't worry, my english is bad too :)
>
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